Chamath Palihapitiya

These accounts were contacted by predators.

People showed up.

yada, yada, yada, a whistleblower and former meta engineer testified that his own 14 year old daughter received sexual solicitations on Instagram.

Then on Wednesday, an LA jury found meta and YouTube negligent for designing addictive platforms that harmed a young user's mental health.

Basically, the plaintiff in this case, Sachs said they started using YouTube at age six and Instagram at age nine.

And she testified that features like notifications, algorithms, made the app so addictive that it caused depression and anxiety through that compulsive use.

You have some thoughts on this.

And we had Jonathan Haidt, right?

Didn't we do an interview together?

Wasn't that one of the first joint interviews?

Incredible book.

What I'll counter, I agree, personal choice, super important.

What you're probably leaving out here, which you're definitely leaving out here, is when these companies know they're doing something damaging and they do it anyway, that was the key to the RJR Nabisco case.

I'll put those two aside, because I don't think we've seen major cases about that.

But I will say the auto industry knew for a long time about seatbelts, you remember that, and they didn't deploy them RJR Nabisco, they knew that these were addictive, and they designed the cigarettes to become more addictive.

And they didn't tell people about the health risks, asbestos, same thing, lead paint, same thing.

This has happened over and over again, where corporations

subvert the release of information to make additional profits.

So the question here with Facebook is, did they know how addicted these were?

Did they know kids were being assaulted sexually and they could have done something about it or didn't they?