Meta’s $17 Billion Dollar Settlement Raises Questions over Teen’s Mental Health: MTSU’s Community Weighs In

ABLECHILD: Zuckerberg Pays Overfunded Mental Health Industry After Meta Harms Kids

Zuckerberg Pays Overfunded Mental Health Industry After Meta Harms Kids Republished with permission from AbleChild. Mark Zuckerberg is quickly becoming the Anthony Fauci of social media moguls. It wasn’t bad ... Read

Guest Opinion: Meta's settlement money won't save a single Palo Alto kid

One in five Palo Alto teenagers reports chronic feelings of sadness or hopelessness. One in ten has seriously considered suicide in the past year. Those numbers come from the Jed Foundation's (JED) newly released findings report, commissioned by Palo Alto and built on focus groups with 53 local youth, listening sessions with 74 community stakeholders, and Panorama survey data from more than 5,000 students in our schools.

State Attorney’s General Cram Public Health Protections Down Meta’s Throat

For years, much of public health’s response to the well-documented mental health harm caused by social media among kids has been to tell parents to watch their kids more closely and tell them to spend less time on their phones. What we really needed were policy and regulatory changes aimed at the products themselves… especially the algorithms Meta and Tick Tock use to keep kids scrolling to sell more ads and make[…]

ABLECHILD: Zuckerberg Pays Overfunded Mental Health Industry After Meta Harms Kids - Politics, Policy, Political Views

Zuckerberg Pays Overfunded Mental Health Industry After Meta Harms Kids Republished with permission from AbleChild. Mark Zuckerberg is quickly becoming the Anthony Fauci of social media moguls. It wasn’t bad enough that Zuckerberg’s policies at Facebook for trying to influence the 2020 election, including kicking President Donald Trump off the site, yielded no legal or

Meta’s $17 billion dollar settlement raises questions over teen’s mental health: MTSU’s community weighs in

Meta, the parent company of the platforms Instagram and Facebook, recently agreed to a $17 billion settlement in a lawsuit alleging it purposely made its platforms addictive to teenagers. The multistate lawsuit accused Meta of misleading the public about its platform’s danger, ignoring the damage it has caused youth’s mental health and violating the Children’s...