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Exclusive | Blackburn, Klobuchar slam Mark Zuckerberg for banning law firm ads for victims of social media addiction: 'Disturbing'

New York Post·Thomas Barrabi·about 1 month ago
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Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) blasted Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg on Friday over the tech giant’s “disturbing” move to take down ads from law firms that offered to represent victims of social media addiction. Meta started yanking ads off Facebook and Instagram in April after losing blockbuster verdicts in Los Angeles and New Mexico that found the company failed to protect kids. One of the ads proclaimed that Meta knew its apps were causing anxiety, depression and self-harm but “kept targeting kids anyway.” Meta’s ad ban is “nothing more than an attempt to preserve a harmful business model at all costs — one that actively profits off the addiction of this nation’s youth,” the senators wrote in a letter to Zuckerberg, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by The Post. “In fact, Meta’s actions expressly conflict with its recent policy changes to ‘allow more speech’ and to stop removing or demoting content, except in the most extreme circumstances,” the senators added. Sen.…

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