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Comment: Unredacted court filing fleshes out states' case that Meta deceived public about harms to children

By Madeline Hughes ( November 28, 2023, 01:15 GMT | Comment) -- Meta Platforms’ top leadership rejected proposals intended to limit harms to the mental health of its youngest users — despite internal research showing those harms — in order to maximize profits and the “lifetime value '' of children and teens on its platforms, newly unredacted court documents assert. Internal Meta documents and new allegations made public in recent days in a lawsuit filed last month by 33 state attorneys general detail how, since at least 2016, top executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri were briefed repeatedly about the harms of excessive social media use.Meta Platforms’ top leadership rejected proposals intended to limit harms to the mental health of its youngest users — despite internal research showing those harms — in order to maximize profits and the “lifetime value '' of children and teens on its platforms, newly unredacted court documents allege....

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