Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

Re:Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US co... by JuniperMesos on Saturday November 22, 2025 @11:45PM (#46020828)

What policy proposals would you have made with respect to MTV decades ago, and how would people at the time have reacted to them? MTV peaked (I think) before I was alive or at least old enough to have formative memories involving it, but people have been complaining about television being brain-rotting for many decades and I'm sure there was political pressure against MTV's programming on some grounds or another, by stodgy cultural conservatives who hated freedom of expression or challenges to their dogma. Were they correct? Would it have been good for the US federal government in the 80s and 90s to have actually imposed meaningful legal censorship on MTV for the benefit of the mental health of its youth audience?

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Re:Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US co... by olelele on Sunday November 23, 2025 @03:14AM (#46021706)

I think passively watching something on television is very different from today’s highly interactive social media. Like instagram is literally a small percentage people becoming superstars for their looks and lifestyles and kids are expected to play along..

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Re:Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US co... by Forgeties79 on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:15AM (#46023313)

> people have been complaining about television being brain-rotting for many decades

This was an unsupported, widely repeated claim by social conservatives that cannot be compared to the demonstrable, well-studied impacts of social media on people’s - especially young people’s - minds. They are not even remotely on the same level.

Do you believe they are the same?

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