a startling revelation that highlights how far these companies are willing to keep a highly sensitive subject out of the headlines.
*… are willing TO GO to keep…
Why are even “professional” writers dropping words this way, now?
wish they’d pay me for turning my friends into trumpanzees…
We need to find a way to make settlements in exchange for silence illegal. That is not justice.
always bugged me that the 1st amendment is only applicable to a gov’s control of a person. not a person’s “selling” their silence to a corporation. i’m saying, take the money and still speak. but that amendment won’t protect you.
corporations need to be dissolved when they do shit like this.
If one was willing to play as dirty as the big companies it could be got away with. The threat is one would be sued into oblivion, if all of ones assets were hidden adequately that threat would be meaningless
Even with no assets, they’d still drag you into court. Even if you completely rolled over and threw yourself on the mercy of the court, they’d garnish your wages. Good luck ever getting credit from a bank again.
Hush money.
These are the people who use “protect kids” as a slogan to excuse spying on everyone (for data they can sell to advertisers, no less).
These are the people whom kids need to be protected from.
Abolish their charters. Prosecute every person involved under RICO. Nationalize their company assets. Regulate the industry.
It’s vulgar what the corporate world inflicts on us all and it must come to an end. These traitors against humanity need to be held accountable.
Look at Taylor Farms.
The fact that they’re willing to pay teenagers to keep quiet says a lot. If the apps were really as safe as they claim, you’d think they’d want to prove it in court rather than settle quietly. Hard to take all those speeches about protecting kids seriously after that.
It also shows what’s at stake for them- what they have to lose. A billion dollar company doesn’t write $2MM checks to teenagers on a whim. Someone did the math, and decided that whatever those kids had to say would cost Meta more than paying them all off.
I think it boils down to this- Meta makes money through engagement algorithms. They keep you scrolling and scrolling for hours, and the longer you scroll the more ads you see. And the more people are scrolling, the more people there are on the platform as a target audience so the more creators are on the platform.
But that comes at a cost. Not for Meta, but for the young impressionable people that get sucked into endless scrolling and believing that the fake lifestyles and appearance of ‘influencers’ are the way to be happy.
Meanwhile there is no downvote button. So the worst of the toxic crap gets seen by everybody and of course people react to it and call those people out but as far as Meta is concerned that’s just more engagement on their platform.Point is, they have to know this is happening. They aren’t stupid. And if they know they are causing harm to kids and keep doing it anyway, then they are in big big big big big trouble. Either through court judgments or additional regulation.
And so if they can stop that from happening by writing a few million dollar checks, that’s a bargain.
Read Careless People by Sarah from Meta/Facebook. She paints a picture where they are ran by people who are clearly sociopaths (obvious), but she mentions how none of them let their children use the very products they built/build. They go to Montessori schools and use nothing but wood toys from what I remember hearing.
You took them seriously before?
Why?
Their whole business revolves around exploitation and lying. And exploitation. And lying.That’s a bot comment
Which one - mine or yours?
Theirs. The one you replied to.
Ah, thanks!
I got fooled…
What kinda experiences would merit millions in payouts?
The teen plaintiffs accused the companies of causing their depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and anxiety. According to the publication’s insider sources, Meta paid just two teens a combined $7 million to keep them quiet — a startling revelation that highlights how far these companies are willing to keep a highly sensitive subject out of the headlines.
They go on those platforms and get pushed down rabbit holes like anorexia glorifying content and before they know it their mental health is in the kind of state that a decade of therapy can’t fix.
The platforms pay off the very few that sue while millions of others quietly suffer. Most of them not having the resources to take them to court anyway.
Damn! I wonder what the rate is for middle aged divorced guys.
The teen plaintiffs accused the companies of causing their depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and anxiety.
Right? I should threaten to sue Meta and TikTok!
So child exploitation.
These teens should offer to bring a case, breaking the NDAs in exchange for protection for doing so.
Or just collectively break the NDAs because it would shame the social media companies into at least not pursuing them.
If they broke the NDA, Facebook’s legal team would ruin their lives.
I thought NDAs were not enforceable if they are used to conceal criminal behavior?
Probably. These were civil suits though. You can’t settle a criminal case.
If justice was real, there would be a way for them to break NDA, and keep the money, because fuck these companies. They need to be taught a lesson: “Fuck around and find out”
it’s not like these companies care about laws anyways, so it only stands to reason they don’t care about NDA’s either
They only care about the laws they can weaponize.
