Sophie Hallwright
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16,340 appearances
52 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
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Let's look at the numbers in terms of how much they've been fined for this lawsuit 'cause I think it's important to note that there's gonna be I mean, there's so many more that will be coming to the forefront, right?
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Like, whether it's individuals, businesses, like even in New Zealand, um
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They're they've banned now social media for under 16s because there's so many mothers and people who are like, This is terrible and so damaging.
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We need to change this.
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And you're seeing it change all over the world.
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So I think let's talk about the numbers in terms of how much they've been fined, and then let's talk about what that actually means, what we're gonna see changes in this space, like what do Meta actually have to do.
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So the 18 billion.
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That they've been fined, just so that you know how much money they've made.
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So Meta made six or just over 60 billion in net income for the full year in 2025.
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So this settlement is like around about 27% of one year's profit and about eight percent of their annual revenue.
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So like
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That's a lot of money, even though you think oh they're making so much money and like what is eighteen billion gonna do?
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This is only one case.
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If they have to pay this, plus any other huge ones that come their way, which no doubt they will.
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It's kind of like what are these businesses gonna do?
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the way that these businesses can operate and make money like across the board.
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Um, and like some of the basically that they're having to agree to do like clear prompts and notifications like every 15 minutes so that you're constantly reminded of like the fact that you're still on there and give reminders at like the 60 and 90 minute.
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I think the most amazing thing is the fact that teenage users will have like a default of only being allowed to use two hours a day.
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But I think the thing that's really interesting is
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Parents up until this point have had so much responsibility on them to try and l impact that these platforms are having on their kids.
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