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The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/

#BigTech #GAFAM #Google #Meta #TikTok #Snap #teens #mentalhealth #privacy #surveillance #addiction #drugs

Tech Oversight Project

TECH OVERSIGHT REPORT: UNSEALED COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW TEEN ADDICTION WAS BIG TECH’S “TOP PRIORITY” - Tech Oversight Project

New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The documents provide smoking-gun evidence […]

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@deFractal@infosec.exchange replied · 3 hours ago

@giacomo All good except the mistaken suggestion that #KOSA could make anything better. KOSA would prevent any effective access to privacy, including the minimum necessary to bypass ideological censorship or to stay safe from abusively controlling parents, while also facilitating government censorship and wholesale identity theft against adults.

It would render Signal and Mastodon—two of the most important technologies for free expression—unlawful.

Prohibiting addiction-oriented algorithms would be beneficial. However, enforcing online age verification (as opposed to on-device parental controls) is always harmful: in a multitude of ways.

https://infosec.exchange/@deFractal/115994076948088497

Giacomo Tesio

@giacomo@snac.tesio.it replied · 1 hour ago

@deFractal@infosec.exchange

Prohibiting addiction-oriented algorithms would be beneficial.

You can't wait for whistlebowers to be sure the algorithm employed are designed to addict.

So "prohibiting #addiction-oriented algorithms" is in no way enough: we need to make their application unfeasable.

Let's ban any centralized #SocialNetworks.

Let's outlaw any software that transfer one bit of data more than what is demonstrably required to fulfill users' request.

Let's completely ban #cookies, software fingerprinting, tracking, targeted ads and everything that fluel #SurveillanceCapitalism.

Let's ban "free services" based users' data collection and users' manipulation, starting from #GMail free tiers.

Let's break #BigTech like #Google or #Meta so that they cannot both provide services to users and sell ads or data.

This will work.

#AgeVerification is just giving these companies further data point even on people they cannot directly spy. It will further damage worldwide societies and #democracy withou any benefit to kids and other vulnerable people.

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