>[irreparably damaging] children's minds

I’d love for someone to get me into Mark Zuckerberg’s head on why he should keep doing what he’s doing.

The real trick was convincing parents to buy devices for their kids. That's by far the worst thing he's ever done.

Agreed, especially considering Meta made $60.46 billion in profit in 2025 alone.

The system rewards psychopaths like Mark. Decent people, like Tom from MySpace, cash their check when they have more than they need. Demons, like Mark, want more and more and more and more- they will go to any lengths to get it because screw everyone else, they are lessers. That’s Mark and that’s the system rewarding him. We all know Tom is way cooler.

The smoking gun here is that they actually hired psychologists and experts in creating addictive stuff from e.g. the gambling industry. It clearly shows that their intent was "make this as addictive as possible."

Then they ignored tons and tons of warning signs that this was having a negative effect especially on children and the elderly.

Now I think they need to hit YouTube, TikTok, and addiction-engineered loot box games. If we're establishing the precedent that addiction-engineering is bad, that's a huge win for our civilization.

Pretty much the entire mobile ecosystem is a hellscape of black hat attacks on the human central nervous system. You can do it via a web browser or a desktop too but when you do it on a phone the portability and something about the form factor and touch interface seems to supercharge it.

Are we going to pretend that internet did not expose inappropriate content to children prior to Facebook?

America defaults to free. That's very unsettling for those that prefer an authoritarian approach.

Maybe all these state AGs knew there was a good chance of losing because the facts aren't as strong as the narrative?

"Meta denies wrongdoing in settling claims"

It is like contending with that monstrous child from the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life".

It's good what you did to those children, Mark. And it's a good thing you paid billions in hush money, too.

Agreed. I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that ad-hoc legal action and regulations are just stop gap measures in a losing battle, and that any remedy needs to be more foundational. For example: mandate that every job description in any private corporation include a list of ethics responsibilities, and that employees may challenge management directives that in their view breach those responsibilities, and if management response is unsatisfactory, that employees may raise the concern to relevant authority. This will limit management/shareholder/board ability to pressure/incentivize an otherwise individually rational workforce to collectively behave like a psychopath.

not a recognized psychiatric condition as they employ how many psychiatrists on staff to specifically engineer this addition. i hate that the standard of evidence for these claims is impossibly high. Like you need an email from zuck himself that says "i want to mind rape young boys"... when there's mountains of evidence of them working to that exact goal... they just didnt say "mind rape young boys". The actions and results speak plainly enough. WE dont need zuck himself to confirm it.

This is a massive gift to FB. $17B paid is a few weeks of revenue and a single quarter’s worth of profit. But even worse, this is paid out over 10 years! A billion dollars per year to eliminate this major risk is an absolute gift from the AGs. They’re cowards who should be ashamed.

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This is crazy, Meta is not solely responsible for people and kids having addiction to their phones (very similar if not identical to social media addiction).

Gambling has regulations all the companies have to abide by. Social media and content platforms have nothing like that.