The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.

“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years

I am writing a post on rise of software that help bring back sanity to the web. Please help me expand the list 😎✨

https://thatshubham.com/blog/2026

#indieweb #distraction #enshittification #technology #internet #socialmedia #adhd #depression #mentalhealth #sysadmin #retro #youtube #facebook #google #firefox #chrome

Not in a good headspace. I mean I could try to sleep. But I don’t think it’ll solve anything #MentalHealth #iDontThinkImOkay

Looksmaxxing, the relentless drive to "maximize" one's appearance, is increasingly mainstream — and having an overwhelmingly negative effect on young people's mental health. @MarieClaireUK takes a look at the origin of the term in incel communities, how young people are paying to get strangers to assess their appearance, and the spread of Looksmaxxing to the aesthetics industry.

https://flip.it/4A6MSj

#Beauty #Lifestyle #MentalHealth #Looksmaxxing