Meta's business model designed to 'hook users, harvest data', California lawyer says

Megan O'Neill, a lawyer for the state of California, has begun speaking. She says Meta's business model can be summed up this way: "Hook the users; hold them for as long as they can; harvest their data; hide the truth from the public when making public statements." O'Neill says this "worked especially work for kids", adding Meta designed the platform so children kept coming back to it. Children are a "product", O'Neill says, adding Meta tracked their behaviour to se