Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company.
Worked fine in what sense? Teen weren’t getting getting depressed from watching perfect, fake lives posted by influencers? They weren’t bullied? I doubt it. I mean, you’re right, you can make social networks less toxic but in the end the entire concept is just silly, useless and harmful. The only way to win is not to play.
It worked fine in the sense that the corporate overlords were not filling feeds full of advertising and bullshit that facebook wants us to see.
You’re probably far too young to rememeber thefacebook of the early 00s but it was a VERY different website.
Your feed USED TO BE just your friends, in chronological order. No advertising. No videos. No news articles. No “engagement” metric to speak of.
I’m definitely old enough to remember it, I just never used it. But maybe you’re right. I remember the early youtube, before google took it over and yeah, it was very different. I’m just not sure if it turned in what it is today because evil corporations monetized it or because people are just stupid assholes. Probably little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.
Mostly column A imo
Maybe you should read up about it before flapping about not knowing anything.
Behind the Bastards did a great episode on Fuckerberg and all the bullshit and damage he’s done. He literally caused a fucking GENOCIDE. All driven by “engagement.”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence
I know about it but I don’t think a program aimed at teenagers would stop Myanmar genocide…
Keep moving those goalposts.
What? The post says ‘thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens’. You’re jumping out with Myanmar and I’m the one moving goalposts? Delusional much?