How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta failed children on safety

Zuckerberg and his team drove the Facebook parent company’s efforts to capture young users and misled the public about the risks, according to more than a dozen lawsuits filed since last year by the attorneys general of 45 states and the District of Columbia. — The New York Times

In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness and compulsive use on Instagram and Facebook.

In the email, Ginsberg noted that the company faced scrutiny for its products’ impacts “especially around areas of problematic use/addiction and teens”. He asked Zuckerberg for 24 engineers, researchers and other staff.