We need to find a way to make settlements in exchange for silence illegal. That is not justice.
always bugged me that the 1st amendment is only applicable to a gov’s control of a person. not a person’s “selling” their silence to a corporation. i’m saying, take the money and still speak. but that amendment won’t protect you.
corporations need to be dissolved when they do shit like this.
Hush money.
These are the people who use “protect kids” as a slogan to excuse spying on everyone (for data they can sell to advertisers, no less).
These are the people whom kids need to be protected from.
What kinda experiences would merit millions in payouts?
The teen plaintiffs accused the companies of causing their depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and anxiety. According to the publication’s insider sources, Meta paid just two teens a combined $7 million to keep them quiet — a startling revelation that highlights how far these companies are willing to keep a highly sensitive subject out of the headlines.
They go on those platforms and get pushed down rabbit holes like anorexia glorifying content and before they know it their mental health is in the kind of state that a decade of therapy can’t fix.
The platforms pay off the very few that sue while millions of others quietly suffer. Most of them not having the resources to take them to court anyway.
Damn! I wonder what the rate is for middle aged divorced guys.
The teen plaintiffs accused the companies of causing their depression, self-harm, eating disorders, and anxiety.
Right? I should threaten to sue Meta and TikTok!
The fact that they’re willing to pay teenagers to keep quiet says a lot. If the apps were really as safe as they claim, you’d think they’d want to prove it in court rather than settle quietly. Hard to take all those speeches about protecting kids seriously after that.
You took them seriously before?
Why?
Their whole business revolves around exploitation and lying. And exploitation. And lying.That’s a bot comment
So child exploitation.
These teens should offer to bring a case, breaking the NDAs in exchange for protection for doing so.
Or just collectively break the NDAs because it would shame the social media companies into at least not pursuing them.
If they broke the NDA, Facebook’s legal team would ruin their lives.
I thought NDAs were not enforceable if they are used to conceal criminal behavior?
Probably. These were civil suits though. You can’t settle a criminal case.
If justice was real, there would be a way for them to break NDA, and keep the money, because fuck these companies. They need to be taught a lesson: “Fuck around and find out”
it’s not like these companies care about laws anyways, so it only stands to reason they don’t care about NDA’s either
They only care about the laws they can weaponize.
