Meta Tells White Lies About Its Addictive Features to Parents, Lawmakers and Users

The United States v Meta Platforms Court Filing October 24, 2023 is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This is part 14 of 100. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here B. Meta falsely represents that its Social Media Platform features are safe and not designed to induce young users’ compulsive and extended use. 117. Meta has misrepresented the impact of the features used by its Social Media Platforms that drive young users to spend extended time on the Platforms. 118. While Meta consistently reassures parents, lawmakers, and users that its Social Media Platforms are suitable for young users and designed to promote their well-being, it continues to develop and implement features that it knows induce young users’ extended, addictive, and compulsive social media use. These features include: • Algorithmic recommendation and sequencing; • Public display and quantification of engagement metrics such as Likes; • Face and body image manipulation filters; • Disruptive audiovisual and haptic alerts; • Infinite scroll and autoplay formats; • Permitting and encouraging users to create multiple accounts; and • “Ephemeral” presentation of social content. 119. [Redacted] Instagram had the potential to positively affect its users by providing, among other things, a positive community and connection with others who shared identities, abilities, and interests—including isolated youth in marginalized racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.[8] [Redacted] [8] See Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory 6, Dept. Health & Human Servs. (2023) (“[S]tudies have shown that social media may support the mental health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other youths by enabling peer connection, identity development and management, and social support.”), http://archive.today/QAytZ. Continue Reading . Here About HackerNoon Legal PDF Series: We bring you the most important technical and insightful public domain court case filings. This court case 4:23-cv-05448 retrieved on October 25, 2023, from is part of the public domain. The court-created documents are works of the federal government, and under copyright law, are automatically placed in the public domain and may be shared without legal restriction. Washingtonpost.com