“No good comes from kids on social media … and the industry wants them addicted”

Rough week for Zuck. Two verdicts went against Meta in 2 days. They were first found liable for allowing child predators to access minors on Facebook and Instagram. Then on Wednesday, an LA jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for designing addictive platforms that harmed a young user's mental health. No good comes out of kids under 16 using social media. kids who use this two or three hours a day. It's massively correlated with depression and anxiety and eating disorders specifically in young girls. It's obviously addicting. Obviously, the industry has not policed itself, nor would they police themselves because they want to get people addicted

now. So, they're addicted when they're adults. The rest of the world has realized this. Australia now has 16 enforced, Malaysia 16. Other countries are right behind them. Spain, Germany, UK. So labeling information and agegating would be the logical things to do for social media. And that's what's happened in the past. If Android and Apple showed leadership with Facebook and said, "We're going to by default when you buy a phone, you're going to have to ageverify kids under a certain age. We could solve this problem." And then parents would opt in to giving their kids access to