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One of the emails released from discovery already was about how Facebook deliberately trying to cultivate FOMO in teens, specifically sending mass notifications
by malfist 9mo ago
One of the emails released from discovery already was about how Facebook deliberately trying to cultivate FOMO in teens, specifically sending mass notifications during school hours to make people not on facebook feel like they're being left out.
- elevatortrim 9mo agoThis is wild. I would've thought everyone working in the company implicitly knew what they were doing without no-one needing to mention it but I can't imagine someone being so dumb as to suggesting something like sending notifications during school hours in writing. Could you link to this?
- malfist 9mo agoTake a look at this (facebook saying teens are top priority): https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.401490/gov.uscourts.cand.401490.2648.10.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... Heavily redacted document talking about the mass notifications: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.401490/gov.uscourts.cand.401490.2648.20.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40... Here's reporting on this and other documents: https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/ https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/ HN discussion of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46902512