The Social Reckoning That Wasn't

Go to https://surfshark.com/boyle or use code BOYLE at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark! Last month Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion dollars to settle claims that it knowingly harmed teenagers — a number the press immediately called Big Tech's "tobacco moment." Wall Street responded by sending the stock up. In this video Patrick Boyle reads the actual 130-page consent judgment so that you don't have to, and work out what Meta really bought for its money. It turns out the headline figure is worth about two days of revenue, the "new" safety rules are mostly settings Meta had alrea