Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the “media narrative”
- Plaintiffs allege Meta hid product risks from users and authorities — Meta accused of ineffective youth safety features …
Reuters Jeff Horwitz
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Discussion
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
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Damning. [embedded post]
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@chastenbuttigieg
@chastenbuttigieg
on bluesky
Parents, if you have time to read anything today (and the capacity to feel rage), then these new allegations against two of the largest social media companies, and their apparent disregard of you and your kids' relationships and mental health, should be it.
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@huibmodderkolk
Huib Modderkolk
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'A staffer worried that keeping quiet about negative findings would be akin to the tobacco industry 'doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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@alderik
@alderik
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“To the company's disappointment, “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social comparison,” internal documents said.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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@matslbengtsson
Mats Bengtsson
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👀 — Unsurprisingly it has emerged that in 2020, Meta stopped research showing that people who reduced the use of Meta's services, experienced improved mental health. Zuck killed the research.
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@wordwatcher
Katherine
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Meta downplayed risks to children. Sex trafficking on META was widely tolerated — according to a court filing unsealed Friday. — time.com/7336204/meta...
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@jeffhorwitz
Jeff Horwitz
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I've spent almost seven years covering Meta and have had a good deal of exposure to internal work product on teen well-being. But a Friday filing in the school district social media litigation breaks some ground on Meta's causal findings regarding social media harm. — www.reut…
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r/technology
r
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According to the brief, Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues …