Re: What IS "Social Media"??
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 22:10:43 -0000 (UTC)
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:13:54 +0100, s|b wrote: > This is not "to protect the children" as they claim. The social media companies are well aware of the harm they are causing. Remember Frances Haugen? She revealed that her (former) employer, Facebook/Meta, had internal research into the undesirable effects of their own services on their users, which they simply covered up. After she blew the whistle, did any of these companies take heart, and reform their operations to be better for their users? Not a bit of it. Instead, they stopped collecting the data that showed the harm was happening. And threatened and blocked any independent researchers who tried to uncover the same.