SCOUT· 63%28m·2026-08-27·News PoliticsA Historic Settlement Over Social Media Addiction
Meta, the world’s biggest social media company, reached a multibillion-dollar legal settlement on Wednesday over claims that its technology was addictive to children. The company agreed to impose major changes to how minors use its products. Cecilia Kang, a technology reporter for The New York Times, explains why a…
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“The New York Times has been covering this issue for a long time, and I don’t understand why there is so little mention of cases in other countries. For example, in the Netherlands, the NGO Bits of Freedom won a lawsuit against Meta over its…”
“It still disappoints me that Facebook stopped being the address book that everybody updated, which is what I signed up for. I never wanted all the addictive stuff that got added; investors and advertisers did. It stopped being social media,…”
“Yeah, the settlement payment is about a day and a half's revenue for Meta, and it's paid over a decade. The "protections" only go into effect after various conditions are met.”
“Great! Problem solved. Lets check in a year. Lets also see how the states will wisely spend $18b to address the damage. Strangely this question was not asked in this conversation.”
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