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Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege (www.cnn.com)
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Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company.

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[–] pete_the_cat 23 points 1 year ago

The site was always built on "The Skinner Box" model, where you get those sweet sweet dopamine hits. Even back in 2010-2011 it was like that, my girlfriend was literally addicted to checking Facebook. She couldn't go more than about 5-10 minutes without checking her wall/feed.

I had an account back when I started to open up in 2005-2006 and it's a completely different beast now. At least back then it was about social interaction with people at your university and not a virtual drug machine.