Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege | CNN Business
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company.

Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally and repeatedly thwarted initiatives meant to improve the well-being of teens on Facebook and Instagram, at times directly overruling some of his most senior lieutenants, according to internal communications made public as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the company.

  • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
    4610·
    1 year ago

    Meh. Other than shutting it down I don’t think there’s much Meta could do to help teens. The entire model of posting up your fake life online for everyone to see is bad, with or without beauty filters or notifications. Sounds like he objected to some empty initiatives that were more about PR than actually helping anyone.

    • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      You could change the experience in significant way by adjusting the algorithm of suggested posts.

      • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
        918·
        1 year ago

        How would you adjust it? The whole concept of ‘social networks’ is just posting your life for everyone to view and expecting some validation/confirmation. I don’t think algorithm can change that. There’s plenty of other platforms/tools already where you can… you know, do other things like read news, post comments anonymously, play games and stuff. People who post selfies on instagram specifically want to be judged by other people. I don’t think there’s a healthy way to do it.

          • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
            210·
            1 year ago

            Worked fine in what sense? Teen weren’t getting getting depressed from watching perfect, fake lives posted by influencers? They weren’t bullied? I doubt it. I mean, you’re right, you can make social networks less toxic but in the end the entire concept is just silly, useless and harmful. The only way to win is not to play.

              • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
                15·
                1 year ago

                I’m definitely old enough to remember it, I just never used it. But maybe you’re right. I remember the early youtube, before google took it over and yeah, it was very different. I’m just not sure if it turned in what it is today because evil corporations monetized it or because people are just stupid assholes. Probably little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.

        • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
          17·
          1 year ago

          Easiest way to make it less toxic, is to make it just chronological - that’s just the most basic example.