If you think the fines being sought against Meta are high, at 200 B, remember that Meta has been harming children at an industrial scale for 2 decades. They knew it, their own research showed it.
We organized 35 of their own studies here:
Jonathan Haidt
@JonHaidt
Social psychologist at NYU-Stern, working to roll back the phone-based childhood. Please visit anxiousgeneration.com &
afterbabel.com
- 11 years ago I set out to write a book on the moral psychology of capitalism. I got sidetracked, never wrote it. But here's a new book that does a great job of it: Inequality: The View from Manywheres, by Séamus Power. He and I both draw on our mentor, Richard Shweder:
- A judge in New Mexico last week ordered Meta to pay another $567 million, in addition to the $375 million judgment against Meta earlier this year, for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children. At almost a billion dollars, this is the largest
- It was an honor to meet @PMalinauskasMP, the Premier of South Australia, who did the research and hard work to craft the first bill to raise the age for social media to 16. He knocked over the first domino. Now he's driving change to get kids more fun outdoors:An honour to meet @JonHaidt, whose book The Anxious Generation helped inspire our world-leading move to ban social media for children. It was also a great opportunity to take him through our Kids Off Screens policy.
- Most American adults now support phone-free schools. Public support is bipartisan. The most frequent report I hear is that lunchrooms and hallways are loud again. From @pewresearch
