US EditionCourt document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say
- Meta officials acknowledged designing their products to exploit psychological traits of youth, according to company documents cited in the complaint.
- Meta claims to have made efforts to ensure online safety for teenagers, citing the existence of over 30 support tools for teens and parents.
- Instead of barring younger users, Meta supports shifting the responsibility of policing underage usage to app stores and parents, advocating for federal legislation requiring parental approval for minors downloading apps.
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Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew — but never disclosed — it had received millions of complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint described in reports from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. The complaint, originally made public in redacted form, was the openin…
The company Meta, which owns the platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, deliberately designed these platforms and updated them so that underage users become addicted to the content they find on them, as well as not to delete their accounts, despite the fact that it is necessary to be over 13 years old to use those platforms, according to the lawsuit filed jointly by prosecutors of 33 U.S. states.
Court document claims Meta knowingly designed its platforms to hook kids, reports say
Facebook parent Meta Platforms deliberately engineered its social platforms to hook kids and knew it had complaints about underage users on Instagram but only disabled a fraction of those accounts, according to court documents.
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