Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that Facebook, Instagram addict children

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/meta-loses-bid-dismiss-us-states-claims-that-facebook-instagram-addict-children-2026-06-30/

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AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 63d (1 reply)

Also old people. So many old people sending links to lies and bullshit.

Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 63d
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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 63d (1 reply)

Me, too. And I love that I have literally never seen anything on instagram. I love that about me.

Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 63d

I love that about you too xx

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 63d

I got my $8 from the FB Privacy Lawsuit yesterday.

Gonna spend it on booze.

GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 63d (1 reply)

And now they'll use it as an excuse to require an ID check to access social media

Prove_your_argument@piefed.social · 6 pts · 63d

They're literally the ones lobbying for IDs on the OS level. https://byteiota.com/metas-2b-lobbying-age-verification-laws-exposed/

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 62d

In the days of Friendster and Myspace, I created a page on one of the other sites, whose name I can no longer remember. Then Facebook dominated and I just didn't want to go through the effort again to create a new one.

Then Facebook started getting creepy. I remember for a while it had the social games (I only remember Cow Clicker by Ian Bogost, which was a parody of other social mutual-clicking games.

At other times there were tie-ins to other franchises. Coupons you could only get through your Facebook account. Since I wasn't allowed to see anyone's pages without an account of my own, I was never enticed to track my friends that way.

Eventually, Facebook went more and more full evil, and I just watched from afar.