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Re:Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms t... by tedggh on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:41AM (#49450072)
There were definitely horrible places on the internet pre Facebook that were popular among kids like Rotten and Ogrish. But there was not a trillion dollar company investing billions of dollars and hundreds of scientists on research to attract and hook kids to their platform. This is not remotely comparable.
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Re:Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms t... by groundzeros2015 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:56AM (#49450305)
Doesn’t Facebook invest a significant part to protect their brand by limiting and censoring content?

Last I checked Facebook didn’t have Rotten content on it.

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Re:Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms t... by freejazz on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:17PM (#49452620)
>Doesn’t Facebook invest a significant part to protect their brand by limiting and censoring content?

Not really.

>Last I checked Facebook didn’t have Rotten content on it.

Instagram directly connects children with children predators. Surfacing content from one to the other.

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Re:Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms t... by butlike on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:18PM (#49452643)
They invented the red notification badge. You know, the thing that gets you to compulsively open the app to view content of people doing better things than you in more exotic places than you. The thing that gets you to compulsively open the app to view content that makes you feel bad about yourself.
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Re:Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms t... by EagnaIonat on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:49AM (#49450181)
The targeted adverts to kids was more horrific. Like targeting troubled male teens with gun adverts.
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