Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment (arstechnica.com)

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A New Mexico judge yesterday ordered Meta to pay $567 million for a fund that would alleviate the “public nuisance” created by its social media services. The order to pay for youth mental health care is in addition to $375 million in civil penalties that a jury ordered Meta to pay earlier in the same case.

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[-] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 hours ago

“We work hard to keep people safe on our platforms and have been transparent about the challenges of identifying and removing bad actors and harmful content."

Didn't their platform directly contribute to starting a civil war? Or was that a diffrent alghoritm-based slopcial media?

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