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Rough week for Zuck. Two verdicts went against Meta in 2 days. They were first found liable for allowing child
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predators to access minors on Facebook and Instagram. Then on Wednesday, an LA jury found Meta and YouTube negligent
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for designing addictive platforms that harmed a young user's mental health. No
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good comes out of kids under 16 using social media. kids who use this two or three hours a day. It's massively
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correlated with depression and anxiety and eating disorders specifically in young girls. It's obviously addicting.
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Obviously, the industry has not policed itself, nor would they police themselves
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because they want to get people addicted now. So, they're addicted when they're
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adults. The rest of the world has realized this. Australia now has 16 enforced, Malaysia 16. Other countries
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are right behind them. Spain, Germany, UK. So labeling information and agegating would be the logical things to
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do for social media. And that's what's happened in the past. If Android and
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Apple showed leadership with Facebook and said, "We're going to by default
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when you buy a phone, you're going to have to ageverify kids under a certain
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age. We could solve this problem." And then parents would opt in to giving their kids access to