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Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by tsunamifury on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:18PM (#38007022)
Again, you don't know that. That can be the result of, show what is engaged with more, and you end up with a rage-loop, that was in no way designed purposefully into the original system.

You're on hacker news you should know these types of system design issues...

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Re:Meta Sued by States over Harmful Youth Marketing on Faceb... by manuelabeledo on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:32PM (#38007150)
> That can be the result of, show what is engaged with more, and you end up with a rage-loop, that was in no way designed purposefully into the original system.

That may have been true fifteen years ago. There is now a decade worth of scientific literature on social network effects on human behaviour, and I think we can agree that this is hardly something not a single Meta executive know anything about.

> You're on hacker news you should know these types of system design issues...

What I'm suggesting is that this is not an issue for them, but a feature.

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