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It’s All about the Algorithm 0

In an article about two recent civil court cases, in which “social” media companies wer found liable for the damage they did to youngsters, John Bennett writes of the implications of those rulings. The following observations caught my eye (emphasis added):

The verdicts of two recent landmark lawsuits — one in Los Angeles and another in New Mexico — confirm what millions of families have known for far too long: Social media companies have built a business model that is fundamentally exploitative. These tech giants hook users while they’re young to create lifelong consumers, no matter the cost to their health or the damage to their lives.

(snip)

Whistleblowers and internal documents unearthed during trial revealed the full extent to which Big Tech knew what it was doing to young people, and kept doing it anyway.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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