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Giacomo Tesio
Giacomo Tesio
@giacomo@snac.tesio.it  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
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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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

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

To read this webpage I had to run allow it to run proprietary JavaScript from CloudFlare.com in my browser. As well as jsdelivr.net, which loads scripts from various Big Tech platforms. Oh the irony.

(Oh and actblue.com, whatever that is)

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Giacomo Tesio
Giacomo Tesio
@giacomo@snac.tesio.it replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Good catch!

I urge you to complain to info@techoversight.org

Also, they are not on the #fediverse.

Yet I don't care much about them, and my post was not intended as an endorsement of their organization or future goals.

I just think that people should know why the mainstream #SocialNetworks are so #toxic and #addictive: it's a design goal of the #BigTech running them, and there is no wise or proper or smart way to wield them.

We can only quit them or be worthless puppets obeying their will.
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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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@giacomo
> mainstream Social Networks are so toxic and addictive: it's a design goal of the BigTech running them

At the risk of splitting hairs, they're social media. Not social networks, connect people to each other directly, not through algorithmic mediation.

I say this because although these terms had different meanings in the Web 2.0 era, the term 'social media' in mainstream use describes what I call DataFarming platforms. Not social software in general.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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For example, see Jonathan Haidt's interview on Hard Fork, where he says in no uncertain terms that young people shouldn't be on "social media". But later clarifies that he's talking about DataFarming platforms in particular, and doesn't think everything on the net ought to be age-gated;

https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork

https://www.nytimes.com

(Published 2022)

Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the rapidly changing world of tech.
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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

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I point this out because not all discourse that rails against Big Tech is actually against Big Tech. Some of it is spread by AstroTurf groups trying to achieve regulatory capture *for* DataFarmers. So we need to careful what we spread, and whose websites we link to.

If a site depends on tools controlled by DataFarming corporations, that tells us its operators don't fully understand the problem of dependencies on technofascist corporations. OR are actually working in the interests.

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