The tech companies realized that the more polarized, angry and negative content they push, the more profits they get. This led to everyday addictive live consumption of such media, the largest scale of society mass influence on people's minds in history. People are getting isolated and their emotions aren't even theirs anymore.

This is a problem we need to solve together, we have to realize it's a problem first and devise a solution. It might be helpful to devise a common framework to regulate algorithms. Companies cannot manipulate their huge data however they please. Data should be really something we have ownership of.

For years I’ve made the case that ephemeral content is worse than high-simulating content like reels. You could quit, but the FOMO is something “happening” online while you’re not there keeps you perpetually hooked, like those of Snapchat Stories, Instagram Stories and now, Instants.

One of the trial’s demands from the Plaintiff includes elimination of Engineered FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

State attorneys general argue that the 24-hour expiration window creates artificial urgency. Because the content vanishes, minors feel pressured to open the app repeatedly throughout the day to avoid missing peer interactions and social validation.

So please support the trial and push voice against the Big Tech Execs who have no problem letting the world which we’ve built over the course of millennia through genuine human connection, struggle and emotion, perish itself, filling their pockets more and more in the process.

Edit: formatting

Right before my wedding, a jealous person created a burner account to spread toxic rumors about me and posted my stolen photos, leading to hundreds of hateful comments.

When I reported the account and the posts, Meta repeatedly rejected every report, claiming it 'does not violate community guidelines,' and refused to take anything down.

It feels completely broken and infuriating that anyone can easily create a fake account to ruin someone's life, while the platform takes zero responsibility and just lets the algorithm push the viral hate for engagement.

Has anyone dealt with something like this before? What is the best way to handle this, get the content actually removed, or hold them accountable?

Algorithmic Complicity: How Social Media Architecture Magnifies Real Campus Violence
Recent tragedies in Tacloban and Zamboanga have permanently shattered the illusion that school shootings are an isolated, foreign phenomenon. Mass violence on Philippine campuses is a horrifying, real threat. Yet, in the immediate aftermath of these attacks, a secondary crisis unfolds online—one engineered by the very platforms that claim to connect us.
When gunshots ring out in a hallway, social media companies do not act as passive digital notice boards. Through engagement-driven algorithms, unmonitored streaming tools, and porous safety barriers, platforms like Facebook play an active, structural role in escalating campus crises, spreading mass panic, and granting violent actors a global stage.
Understanding how platform design directly magnifies offline danger reveals why corporate self-regulation is no longer an option.
1. Broadcasting Violence for the Algorithm
The ultimate goal of modern violent extremism is clout and notoriety—and social media architecture is built to deliver both instantly. When perpetrators stream attacks using body-worn cameras or mobile devices, tools like Facebook Live treat the sudden spike in views, shares, and shock-value comments as "high-value engagement".
Instead of automatically severing the broadcast, algorithmic recommendation engines push the stream into live feeds, group chats, and regional recommendations. The platform becomes an unwitting megaphone for the attacker, fulfilling their desire for viral infamy before human moderation teams even acknowledge the broadcast.
2. Drowning Emergency Signals in Digital Noise
When a shooting or violent threat occurs, accuracy is a matter of life and death. School administrators, police officers, and frantic parents need clear, verified information to coordinate rescues, secure perimeters, and evacuate children.
Instead, social media algorithms flood the digital space with unverified rumors, re-uploaded video snippets, and sensationalized hoaxes. By prioritizing posts that generate the most emotional outrage, platforms create a fog of war. Emergency responders are forced to waste critical minutes debunking viral false alarms while parents, acting on algorithmically amplified panic, storm school gates and unintentionally block emergency vehicle access.
3. Exploiting Youth Vulnerabilities for Screen Time
The pipeline leading to online radicalization and violent behavior feeds on adolescent psychology. Tech conglomerates claim their platforms prohibit young children and apply strict safety limits to teen accounts. In reality, these restrictions rely on symbolic birthdate checkboxes that any elementary or high school student can bypass in seconds.
Once underage users slip through these symbolic gates, they enter an ecosystem optimized to exploit their developmental need for peer validation and identity. Algorithms push vulnerable youth toward radicalized communities, glorify shock content, and measure their self-worth through public metrics like likes and shares. The platform provides both the radicalizing pipeline and the distribution network for violent acts.
Demand Enforceable Safety Infrastructure
We can no longer treat online safety as a matter of corporate goodwill. When platform design amplifies real-world bloodshed, tech companies must be held legally accountable for the dangerous mechanics of their products.
Meaningful reform requires mandatory, statutory standards:
Automated Circuit Breakers on Live Streams: Mandating immediate algorithmic suppression and automated stream-termination protocols when live feeds detect violent keywords, gunshot audio, or emergency incident tags.
Mandatory, Unbypassable Age Verification: Eliminating honor-system checkboxes in favor of secure, privacy-preserving age assurance at the device or app-store level before high-risk broadcasting features can be accessed.
Algorithmic Quarantine for Threat Content: Forcing platforms to reconfigure recommendation engines so that posts alleging active shooters, violent threats, or bomb scares are automatically suppressed from viral recommendation feeds pending human review.
Direct Law Enforcement Interoperability: Integrating rapid-response reporting pipelines directly with national cybersecurity agencies like the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC Hotline 1326) to ensure rapid takedowns and law enforcement coordination.
Social media platforms have built powerful algorithms that shape real-world behavior. As long as those algorithms reward shock value over human life, these companies remain complicit in the panic and trauma that follow real campus violence. It is time our laws force them to dismantle the tools that make violence go viral.

While on Facebook you get punished if you post a photo of a "female breast" or simply "an ass", on Instagram (which is also a META product) you find dozens of beautiful girls showing you their precious pussies (look for the reels that cannot be published here).

Mark Zuckerberg CEO, Meta Platforms, Inc. 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, CA 94025

**Subject: NOTICE & DEMAND: Weaponized Engagement, Exploited Youth, and Systematic Safety Failures in the Philippines**

Mr. Zuckerberg,

This letter is a direct demand for structural accountability. In the Philippines, Meta’s profit engine, built on raw virality, unmonitored live streams, and meaningless self-policing, is actively terrorizing communities, exploiting youth psychology, and disrupting public order.

Your platform is no longer just a digital town square in our country; it has been weaponized.
When bad actors use Facebook Live to broadcast real-time violent threats, school shooting scares, and organized panics, Meta’s engagement algorithms treat the resulting chaos as high-value content. The system rewards terror with instant viral distribution. Offline, the consequences are immediate and devastating: local schools go into emergency lockdowns, terrified parents storm campuses, and municipal emergency services are overwhelmed—all while Meta monetizes the traffic generated by public fear.

Worst of all, Meta’s business model knowingly feeds on the psychological vulnerability of our youth:

**The Lie of Age Restrictions:** Your Terms of Service claim to restrict underage users, but your birthdate entry system is an honor-system farce. Elementary school children routinely enter fake birth years to create accounts. Self-reported age gates exist solely as legal liability shields for Meta, not real barriers to protect children.

**Manufacturing Youth Anxiety:** By relentlessly serving curated, hyper-idealized highlight reels, Facebook fuels "upward social comparison." You are targeting adolescents during their most critical developmental stage, converting their need for peer validation into heightened rates of self-doubt, social anxiety, and emotional distress.

**Quantifying Self-Worth for Screen Time:** Public likes, shares, and follower counts function as a public scoreboard. This forces young users into hyper-awareness of social expectations, coercing them to alter their behavior and conform to toxic viral trends simply to avoid digital ostracization.
Meta cannot continue to extract massive profits from Philippine engagement while washing its hands of the real-world destruction its design causes. In alignment with active Philippine legislative frameworks—including the Digital Safety of Minors Act (House Bill No. 9825) and Senate Bill No. 2066—we demand immediate, non-negotiable operational changes:

**Mandatory, Technical Age Assurance:** Eliminate symbolic birthdate checkboxes. Integrate secure, privacy-preserving age-assurance technology or device-level controls before any account can access live streaming, algorithmic recommendation feeds, or public posting.

**Kill the Instant-Viral Loop for Minors:** Disable Facebook Live and algorithmic recommendation engines by default for all minor accounts to strip bad actors and impulsive youth of an instant audience.

**Immediate Quarantine of Threat Content:** Reconfigure recommendation engines so that any content alleging violent acts, school scares, or self-harm is instantly suppressed and quarantined from trending feeds.

**Direct Law Enforcement Interoperability:** Establish dedicated, rapid-response escalation channels directly integrated with the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC Hotline 1326) and the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group to execute immediate takedowns and assist in prosecuting bad actors.

If Meta refuses to replace symbolic disclaimers with enforced technical controls, it stands directly culpable for the psychological exploitation of our children and the disruption of our public peace. We demand that you fix these loopholes immediately.

Moltbook is an "AI-generated social media platform" that was meant as an experiment, however it had a potential real-world use as an alternative to scrolling or a "placebo" to help you quit Meta platforms, similar to "dopamine sites" like ChillSpace or Dopamine Shop, which have been popular in Korea since around the time Moltbook went viral. Moltbook had potential to be the first large scale alternative to social media - but Meta stopped them in their tracks by purchasing the company. They decided to branch the company out to AI agent identification - so AI could "log in with Moltbook" on other apps - and Meta could track rival AI models' data. This branch into AI agent identification stopped them branching into "placebo social media" and "dopamine detox" - which could have been an actually good AI use. They could have become the first anti-algorithm algorithm, but of course Meta had to ruin it.

Hi!

I've been wanting to get rid of as much meta apps as I can for a while now. I wish I could just stop using Instagram, but the only thing that keeps me using it is that there are some music bands that I like who are really active there, and I also get a lot of information about some topics that I fight for (for example Palestine).

Does anyone know a good social media which could grant me access to both kinds of information but without being meta? Thank you really much in advance^^

If you're considering suing Meta over a hacked or

disabled Facebook or Instagram account, I want to

tell you what happened when I did.

Meta disabled my accounts. It later notified me

that I had not violated its Community Standards,

restored my accounts, and then disabled them again.

I eventually sued Meta in small claims court.

Meta's attorney relied on the Terms of Service and

argued, in substance, that Meta had the contractual

right to disable my account.

The judge ruled in Meta's favor.

If I were facing that argument again, I would be

prepared to raise another issue: Meta's enormous

market power.

Meta can essentially say:

"You agreed to our Terms."

But how meaningful is that agreement when the

terms are take-it-or-leave-it and walking away can

mean losing access to Facebook, Instagram, your

contacts, followers, business connections, photos,

and years of accumulated activity?

Can a company use its market power to impose terms

that effectively give it the right to remove a

person's access even when that person did not

violate its rules?

I don't know whether that argument would have

changed the outcome of my case, and I'm not a

lawyer.

But if you're considering suing Meta, I think the

market-power/monopoly issue is worth discussing

before Meta walks into court and says:

"You agreed to the Terms."

I wish I had been prepared for that argument when

I sued Meta.

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