We are grateful to finally see some accountability for the harms these addictive designed platforms have caused and fully support the prosecutor who won the case in New Mexico in his plan to ask the court to force the company to modify the design of the apps to make them safer for children and teens
From the Los Angeles trial:
During opening arguments, lawyers presented the jury internal company documents from Meta and YouTube that showed tech executives knew of and discussed the negative effects of their products on children.
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From the trial in New Mexico:
“Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees and lied to the public about what they knew.”
2 different trials, 2 guilty verdicts for knowingly endangering children - the company behind Instagram & Facebook found responsible for creating addictive features that harmed mental health and negligent design that allowed minors to be contacted by sexual predators
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/t...
At frequency, we are working to break these harmful design patterns and offer mindful, attention-respecting alternatives because we all deserve better 🫶🏻
Read the full blog post at frequency.leaflet.pub/3md26xqn3dk2m and try us out at frequency.app!
We will only get better technologies when we start demanding them.
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we need to "shift from the idea that success lies in endless growth to success lies in balance. [...] Where do we find that point where it's engaging, it's useful, we feel like we belong, but without getting addicted, drawn, depressed, thrown off-course by it?
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When an app is free, you're not paying with money, you're paying with attention.
What do you pay when you pay attention?
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As Jeff Hammerbacher, facebook’s first research scientist, said after working there: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads ... and it sucks.”
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You wouldn't use a navigation app that deliberately took you to the wrong address or a calculator that gave you the wrong answer - so why do we accept similar behavior from our social media feeds?
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this begs the question: if the apps we use every day to keep in touch with our friends and family were designed with the goals of connection and healthy communication in mind, would we [...] need to take a break from them in the first place?
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This completely ignores the deliberatively manipulative design of the apps we open compulsively. There are literally 1000s of engineers, product managers, and behavioral researchers whose job it is to design the apps we use to be as addictive as possible!
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The issue with digital detoxes is that it puts the blame on us - it suggests that the issue is just that we have insufficient willpower and we could put our phones down at any time if we really wanted to.
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Unpopular opinion: you don't need more willpower. You need better designed apps.
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