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>> Meta and Google lose landmark trial as jury finds them liable for harming young users' mental health
#socialmedia #addiction #FAD #Meta #Facebook #media #science #research #truth #Karma #Zuckerberg #Google
FWIW, this is being shared with you "here" (via the sober Business Insider report),
by the guy who coined the term, "FAD" Facebook Addiction Disorder
Might be interesting to some, for the history and #psychology :
https://calnewport.com/why-hasnt-ai-made-work-easier/
“This is a worst-case scenario: you work faster and harder, but mainly on shallow, mentally taxing tasks (because of all the context shifting they require) that only indirectly help the bottom line compared to harder efforts.
It’s not quite clear why AI tools are having this impact.”
#calnewport
http://scripting.com/2026/03/25.html#a131930
“we sometimes say “please” and “thank you” to AI assistants. It’s just good manners. If we’re overly harsh to bots, will that accidentally rub off on our online interactions with fellow humans, in the same way that someone who mistreats dogs can’t be trusted with human relationships?” @davew
https://www.manton.org/2026/03/25/slop-and-robot-followup.html
“we sometimes say “please” and “thank you” to AI assistants. It’s just good manners. If we’re overly harsh to bots, will that accidentally rub off on our online interactions with fellow humans, in the same way that someone who mistreats dogs can’t be trusted with human relationships?”
@manton
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/
“*This* is a problem we can solve with policy! We can mandate that platforms support interoperability, so that when you leave a legacy platform like Twitter or Facebook for a modern platform like Mastodon or Bluesky, the messages addressed to you on the legacy platform are forwarded” @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/
“Leaving Facebook or Twitter means leaving behind the people who comfort and support you when you are subject to abuse. The more abuse and discrimination you face, the more that support matters, and the harder it is to leave that community behind. You love your community more than you hate Zuck or Musk, so you stay” @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/
“This is the sort of thing you end up believing in if you incur the kind of neurological injury that arises from pursuing an economics degree, which causes you to be incapable of reasoning about (or even perceiving) power” @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive/
“conclusively determining whether you have the right to forward an email could take a lawyer a whole day. Sure, most email forwarding is "fair use" (that is, it fits into one of copyright's "limitations and exceptions"), but any decent IP law prof could come up with ten email forwarding hypotheticals” @pluralistic
Michael Fenichel
