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Plaintiffs' Second Amended Master Complaint (Personal Injury)

Plaintiffs' filing15 Dec 2023

Narratives:Knowledge Profits over Safety

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Bates: META3047MDL-003-00000029–00188114

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“In August 2019, a social psychologist, and leading expert on the effect that technology products have on the mental health of their users, wrote to Mr. …”
“Meta ignored cries from their well-being researchers to aggressively confront its youth safety problem: "there's so much more we could have done here … [but] there was the explicit decision last half not to fund this anymore.”
“Even though "this is the kind of thing that pisses Apple off to the extent of threatening to remove us from the App Store," as of mid-2020, Meta had no timeline for "when we'll stop adults from messaging minors in IG Direct." …”
“An internal document showed that Meta knew its recommendation algorithms "create an echo chamber" of suicide and self-harm content.”

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