Posted on 11/14/2023 7:53:42 AM PST by Red Badger
Out today, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life, blows the lid off of Meta’s pattern of intentionally using harmful and aggressive tactics to get users addicted to social media apps like Facebook and Instagram and documents a shocking rise in depression and suicide that some scientists have linked to social media use.
This comes just weeks after dozens of state attorneys general (AGs) filed suit against Facebook’s and Instagram’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc. (Meta), and three of its subsidiaries, for harming children by addicting them to the social media platforms. Forty-two states, including California and New York, allege that billionaire creator Mark Zuckerberg’s company “knowingly designed and deployed harmful features on Instagram and Facebook to purposefully addict children and teens.”
Previously, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen claimed that Meta targeted children and teens for monetary reasons and a leaked document showed that the youth demographic was “a valuable but untapped audience.”
Just weeks after Haugen blew the whistle on Facebook’s tactics, Zuckerberg unveiled his plan to release what may prove to be Meta’s most addictive product yet: Facebook Horizon. Zuckerberg’s October 2021 virtual tour of the new product, which was panned as “super weird,” was his coming-out party for what has become known as “the metaverse”—a digital world that users can essentially live in and access via a virtual reality (VR) headset such as Facebook’s Oculus Quest.
Zuckerberg’s metaverse launch was a conveniently timed and thinly veiled rebranding effort to distract from whistleblower documents and allegations that, according to the Associated Press, show that “Facebook ignored or downplayed internal warnings of the negative and often harmful consequences its algorithms wreaked across the world.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
They can’t even make a computer OS that doesn’t have bugs in it, yet they want to control billions of people simultaneously.................
This Zuckerberg is a freak!
Zuck’s plan to have people strap on a headset 24/7 has largely flopped.
Even my kid can’t stand wearing the Oculus for more than an hour or two.
FR is the closest to *social media* that I care to come.
I refuse to have facebook, instagram etc accounts.
I deleted my FakeBook account in 2017 and deleted every post, which wasn’t all that many, maybe a few hundred.
The only reason I ever joined was because Rush had a contest that you could enter only thru FB. After that I rarely used it......................
One of today's axis of evil.
bump
Zuckerberg has already cost Facebook over $50 billion with his metaverse with more to come.
$50 billion!! and he has not been fired and the board of directors say nothing.
A lot of adults addicted too.
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