Where are the smoking guns? All I see is normal talk for how to get customers. A smoking gun would be "Teens love posts about X even though we know X is really bad for them. Let's promote lots of X". But I don't see any of that. I just see market research etc.
I could post every quote on the page and respond to it how it's not a smoking gun but not one of them seemed like a smoking gun to me. Anyone care to point to one that seems like a smoking gun to them?
A key feature of many platforms being banned is algorithmic feeds. Nobody has to choose what to promote. The algorithms automatically promote what results in the most engagement. The most addictive content ends up being force fed due to natural selection. And platforms choose to keep them, even if they would otherwise avoid the growing age restrictions, because they are profitable.
We know teens love endless feeds but we know endless feeds is bad for them so we give them endless feeds…
To be clear social media is not as clear cut bad as the endless news/for you feeds which are designed to keep you scrolling vs seeing what friends are doing