They hired behavioral experts to change the algorithms not to sell more product but to intentionally fuel addiction.
Their own internal documentation showed they knew what they were doing, that it was harmful, and they not only continued it, but ramped it up.
Let's say you make a product, paint for instance. You become aware that teenage minors are "huffing" it to get high. You then decide that instead of trying to make the paint less addictive or less intoxicating, you instead make it more addictive and possibly more harmful. You even track the metrics to show how well it works.
You are absolutely liable and should consider yourself lucky if you only get fined instead of getting fined and sentenced to prison.
So if I buy a product I not only don’t need but may be potentially harmful to me because of advertising, I can sue them?
Mind you I think all social media is worthless and detrimental, but does the consumer have no responsibility?
Are alcohol companies responsible for alcoholism?