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Tennessee Attorney General
Meta apps are too addictive for teens
…we’re litigating to make social media safer
October 25, 2023, 2:03 PM Pacific Time
mark zuckerbergMeta tried to design Facebook and Instagram to be very hard to quit, and the result was bad for society… at least that’s what the Tennessee attorney general and 41 other attorneys general say. is.
Jonathan ScumettiThe Volunteer State’s top police officer appeared on “TMZ Live” Wednesday and revealed that 41 states and Washington, D.C., have accused Facebook and Instagram’s parent company of harming our nation’s youth. He explained the reason he was suing.
According to him, social media apps are intentionally designed to take advantage of our networking environment, and platforms with features such as infinite scrolling, reminders, and notifications, to name just a few, are extremely powerful. It is said to be highly addictive.
Mr Scumetti said Mr Mehta was well aware that the app was hard to quit and was bad for people, causing sleep deprivation, anxiety, ADD, depression and possible suicide. It has said.
In his eyes, there is only so much parents can do to prevent their children from becoming addicted to social media, and we are now at a point where the government needs to step in and make a change.
TMZ.com
That’s pretty wild…Scumetti talks about why social media apps are the equivalent of addictive drugs, but it looks like more lawsuits are coming against other social media platforms.
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