Meta

[IM2]

Meta officials including Zuckerberg knew that their product was harmful, especially to children.

This study shows what they knew.

Meta’s Internal Research

What The Company Learned About Social Media and Harms to Mental Health from Dozens of Internal Studies

metasinternalresearch.org

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

This is a parent's responsibility to regulate and monitor.

 

[yidnar]

This is a parent's responsibility to regulate and monitor.

they purposefully target kids .. but you're right in saying the 1st line of defense is proper parenting ..

 

[IM2]

This is a parent's responsibility to regulate and monitor.

When something becomes dangerous for hundreds of millions, it is the government's role to regulate.

 

[Woodznutz]

When something becomes dangerous for hundreds of millions, it is the government's role to regulate.

True. However, the government isn't very good at 'regulating' for the good of society.

 

[IM2]

they purposefully target kids .. but you're right in saying the 1st line of defense is proper parenting ..

Proper parenting doesn't stop everything.

 

[IM2]

True. However, the government isn't very good at 'regulating' for the good of society.

That's not completely true.

 

[Woodznutz]

That's not completely true.

The government allows a lot of damage to continue for the sake of the economy.

 

[IM2]

The government allows a lot of damage to continue for the sake of the economy.

Not really. The reason that regulatins happen is generally due to abuses. Money making is not eveything.

 

[Woodznutz]

Not really. The reason that regulatins happen is generally due to abuses. Money making is not eveything.

Much of the economy is the harvesting of ongoing problems that can be easily solved. We've made industries out of our problems. The first parasites are those who "study" the problems and come up with "solutions" that perpetuate the problems and even add to them.

Look at the python problem in Florida. The 'experts' got together in the back room to figure out how to make money from the problem by perpetuating it. What they came up with was brilliant: "Humane kill", which takes all effective means of control off the table and assures that the problem will only get worse, and more profitable.

 

[Woodznutz]

This is a parent's responsibility to regulate and monitor.

The permissiveness that infects today's parenting began decades ago. Parents today are ill equipped to properly discipline their kids. So, the first line of defense has already collapsed.

 

[Bleipriester]

Meta officials including Zuckerberg knew that their product was harmful, especially to children.

This study shows what they knew.

Meta’s Internal Research

What The Company Learned About Social Media and Harms to Mental Health from Dozens of Internal Studies

metasinternalresearch.org

Who looked the other way when the companies fact checked their users in their favor?

 

[yidnar]

Proper parenting doesn't stop everything.

didn't say it did .. but it's a lot better than uninvolved or neglectful patents ..

 

[Nobody911]

Leaked internal research and related evidence can be used in court, but admissibility and persuasive weight depend on the case, jurisdiction, and how the evidence was obtained and presented. Brief points:

- Possible uses:
- To show company knowledge (mens rea/notice) about risks to teens.
- To support claims of negligence, failure to warn, deceptive practices, or design defects.
- To impeach corporate witnesses or credibility if testimony conflicts with internal documents.

- Legal hurdles:
- Admissibility: courts assess relevance, authenticity, hearsay rules, and whether evidence was lawfully obtained. Privilege, confidentiality, or improper leak methods can complicate admission.
- Causation: plaintiffs must link Meta’s conduct to specific harm for individual plaintiffs; internal studies showing correlations won’t by themselves prove causation without additional expert testimony.
- Standing and damages: plaintiffs must show concrete injury (e.g., diagnosable mental‑health condition) caused by the product and quantify damages.
- Preemption and immunity defenses, statutory limits, and jurisdictional law vary and can block or narrow claims.

- Practical impact:
- Internal documents are often powerful for showing notice and corporate state‑of‑mind, which can shift settlement leverage or survive early motions to dismiss even if causation questions remain.
- Combined with expert testimony and individual medical/psychological evidence, such documents can materially strengthen a plaintiff’s case.

 

[Flopper]

This is a parent's responsibility to regulate and monitor.

That is much easier said than done. 70% percent of children by their 12 year have cell phones and those phones become an integral part of their lives, contacting friends, parents, doing homework, playing games, watching videos, etc . Parents use those phones to track their kids. Instantaneous communication has created a safenet for kids.

Then there's the school laptops, notepads, etc that kids use to do their lessons. Our schools install safeguards to keeps kids aways from harmful sites, but most kids find ways to get around them.

Lastly kids share technology, their cell phones, computers, etc. So even if they can not get to a harmful web site on their device, they use their friends devices.

Parent controls can help but they are not the answer because there are too many ways around them. And if there are several kids in the family, management becomes almost imposbbile.