Meta is accused of halting a study showing Facebook's negative mental health effects, as it faces a potential £1.05 trillion penalty from four US states over addictiveness claims.
  • Pacattack57@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Facebook and instagram shutting down might be the greatest thing to happen to society in the last 20 years

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I’m not optimistic. Sure there have been (and will be more) settlements, but substantive policy change at the federal level is desperately needed.

    If you know someone who teaches young people, go talk to them about how kids are in the classroom now. The teachers I know tell stories of kids who can’t focus for more than 60 seconds, or answer a question when the answer is literally written on the board in front of them. They can’t function without AI, and even worse, challenge teachers to explain to them why they need to learn something when AI models can do it for them. And administrators pressure teachers to just move these kids along despite their deficiencies. This is all on top of the well-documented mental health problems experienced (and likely caused by) social media use.

    This is, in my view, already a crisis and I have the sinking feeling it won’t be addressed in any meaningful way until the widespread social consequences are undeniable.

  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Anyone remember why they became Meta in the first place? I don’t exactly but there was huge news at the time that they were burying. I think it was a whistle blower that was exposing this exact story or something like it.