Zuckerberg Pays Overfunded Mental Health Industry After Meta Harms Kids
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
Mark Zuckerberg is quickly becoming the Anthony Fauci of social media moguls. It wasn’t bad enough that Zuckerberg’s policies at Facebook for trying to influence the 2020 election, including kicking President Donald Trump off the site, yielded no legal or criminal punishments. Rather, Zuckerberg, slimier than a barrel of eels, has recently escaped serious punishment for knowingly and intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram with addictive features to maximize engagement (user time and attention) of underage children for profit.
Just two weeks ago, Zuckerberg agreed to a “landmark” settlement of up $18 billion to resolve a massive federal lawsuit brought by a coalition of U.S. state attorney generals who accused Zuckerberg of design flaws that addicted underage children to Zuckerberg’s social media platforms, leaving them scarred and mentally ill.
Critics argue that the multi-state settlement is nothing more than a slap on the wrist, considering the harm created. AbleChild agrees that the settlement amount is far less than the original $1.4 trillion sought but, frankly, is more concerned about where the nearly $20 billion dollar settlement is headed and for what purposes.
The coalition of 47 states, Washington, D.C. and several territories sued Zuckerberg’s Meta, alleging design practices that, according to internal company communications, executives knew the company’s algorithms were addictive to children but deployed them to maximize profits. Moreover, the lawsuit further alleged that Meta routinely collected data on underage children without parental consent and, ultimately, the suit charges that the algorithmic recommendations exacerbated depression, anxiety, body dysphoria and sleep deprivation in teenagers.
Naturally, whenever depression and anxiety and other alleged mental disorders are mentioned, officialdom finds it necessary to throw money at the mental health establishment. In the case of the Meta settlement, billions will be divided among the states by population size and then funneled into school and community programs like peer support groups, expanding youth psychiatric infrastructures, crisis hotlines and counseling services for children led astray by Meta algorithms.
Local school districts across the country will benefit with settlement money being poured into already over-reaching, intrusive mental health resources to deal with student anxiety, cyberbullying and even classroom distractions. And, New York, which could receive up to $1.1 billion, has revealed that it intends to use its settlement funds to place mental health professionals directly into the classrooms among other mental health initiatives.
Maryland has proposed an Algorithmic Addiction Fund, and it is a dedicated account that bypasses the state’s general fund and rather is funneled directly to the Department of Health to support mental health assessments, crisis hotlines and treatment programs. Connecticut, on the other hand, is estimated to receive between $190 and $265 million of the total settlement and intends to direct those funds to youth mental health infrastructure programs.
AbleChild can’t help but point out that the funds being siphoned into state mental health initiatives is extremely interesting given that evidence was made available in recent state trials that Meta’s algorithms were not designed to support mental health; instead, the algorithms were engineered to optimize kids being online longer, despite explicit internal data showing this approach severely harmed teens.
Rather than integrate mental health protections into its code, Meta’s corporate leadership systematically ignored, buried or downplayed its own internal insights in favor of boosting metrics. In fact, Meta’s own data scientists and researchers spent years studying how its platforms affected teens and those safety employees pitched algorithmic fixes to shield teens, but Meta executives rejected the suggestions. It appears that Zuckerberg was more interested in making money off kids and cared little about how his social media site may have been harming kids.
With all the details provided as to how the settlement will be distributed, it is of interest that there is no information provided in the settlement about the actual numbers of children that may have experienced mental distress because of the algorithms. So, it appears that the billions being provided to states will be available to all children, as no qualifiers have been provided as to who should benefit and how that will be determined.
AbleChild wonders if there is no qualifier to prove a child was harmed by the algorithm and no data available about how many were harmed, why is the money being directed toward state mental health? After all, the federal government is the largest payer of mental health benefits to states through Medicaid and much of that money goes directly to school mental health programs.
To suggest that there are shortages of mental health services in schools is laughable if not outright insulting. Multi-billion-dollar grant programs make up federal funding of mental health programs in schools with nearly five and a half million school-age children receiving mental health benefits each year through Medicaid.
It certainly doesn’t sound like a shortage of mental health for school-age children and, while AbleChild does not support federal funding of mental health in schools, it can’t help but wonder why the taxpayers are on the hook for any portion of mental health benefits as the alleged mental health problems were caused by the explicit approval of Meta executives. In other words, since Marc Zuckerberg created the problem, literally ignoring the harm being created, why should taxpayers have to pay to clean up the Meta founder’s mess?
Furthermore, with all the new money flooding into mental health programs, AbleChild can’t help but ask how many children will be harmed by what will certainly be increased psychiatric diagnosing and drugging because of Zuckerberg’s greed? Who will be on the hook when these children are addicted to prescription drugs? Who will be on the hook when these children have become life-long victims of this new mental health assistance and Zuckerberg’s settlement money is long gone?
Critics of the settlement are right. $18 billion is a pittance compared to the future cost of caring for the children who have become victims of these mental health services. All involved know that once the mental health intervention begins, it doesn’t end when the children leave school. Where will Zuckerberg be then?
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It would seem that Facebook is not good for you, or your kids, and that people should just stop using it
At the same time, the mental health industry is just pumping people with drugs.
Zuckerbuck’s fines would be better spent building parks and swimming pools to get kids interacting with one another WITHOUT their phones
I was eventually banned from Facebook because I’m a Tea party conservative. I would outlaw moderators from all of the internet.
ISYN I READ IT AND INSTEAD OF FB I READ IT AS FAUCHI IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU….LIL CONFUSING BUT I AGREED ANYWAY, THEN I READ IT AGAIN AND OF COURSE IT MADE PERFECT SENSE.
Sept. 7, 2026 "face book should be deep-dive -Investigated, and shut down!!!!!!!"
SO PEDO ACTIONS NOW ARE NOT WHERE YOU DRAW THE LINE BUT YOUR TRIBE GETS MURDERED AND THAT IS WHERE WE SHOULD FOCUS? MYOPIC TRIBAL LOYALTY OVER THE REST OF THE PLANET IS ALL YOU PEOPLE CAN DO. GATHER ALL YOUR THINGS AND MOVE THERE AND FIGHT THE WORLD BUT LEAVE AMERICA OUT OF IT. WE FIGHT FOR AMERICA NOT YOUR IDEOLOGY/RELIGION. DO YOU SEE AMERICA GOING TO WAR B/C CHRISTIANS ARE MURDERED? I CANT IMAGINE YOU JOINING THAT CAUSE NOW WOULD YA.
LEARN IT-LOVE IT- LIVE IT.
zuck is part of the zionist pedo class…. you know the pedos you miga fagg0ts love
Why not all the VIDEO Games manufacturers who do the SAME THING?
I don't use FASCISTBOOK, not since they stole the election for Joe Bribem!
Frankly, I BLAME PARENTS.
There have always been lots of stuff out there that is harmful to kids,
but PARENTS stepped in and did their jobs.
It's called being a RESPONSIBLE PARENT.
IMAGINE BEING THE PARENT THAT DOES NOT LET THEIR CHILDREN DATE,WATCH COLOR TV,SEE MOVIES WITH OUT A PARENT,GO TO A SCHOOL DANCE OR GIRLS TO WEAR PANTS OR RIDE A BIKE, IN THE 80'S OR 90'S.
THAT IS WHAT KIDS TODAY WOULD THINK OF NOT BEING PERMITTED TO USE ALL APPS ON THE NET. KIDS ARE GROOMED AGAINST THEIR PARENTS IN SCHOOL AND THE STATE IS BEGGING TO HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR HOME AND FAMILY DYNAMICS ESPECIALLY IN THE REALM OF DISCIPLINE. I IMAGINE THE PC THE SCHOOLS GIVE ARE A LIVE AUDIO VIDEO DEVICE.
I DONT KNOW THE ANSWERS BUT I DO KNOW A HANDS ON ONE PARENT IN THE HOME WITH THE KIDS IS STEP ONE TO MAINTAINING CONTROL OVER FREEDOM & SAFETY FOR THEM WHILE PRODUCING CHILDREN ABLE TO GROW INTO PRODUCTIVE GOOD PEOPLE.
We supervised ours for all of that.
So did the parents of their friends.
Our opps baby was born in 1999.
MAYBE A LIL EARLY BUT CERTAINLY IN A LOT OF IT. IMAGINE JUST 10 YEARS LATER 2009 MAKES EM 16-17 YEARS OLD.
HAVING ONE NOW MIGHT GROW UP IN A REVOLUTION OR IN THE UTOPIA OF POST REVOLUTION ORRR WE KEEP GOING AS IS AND THEY GROW UP IN IDIOCRACY…TOUGH CALL.
EITHER WAY GREAT ON YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO RAISE SOME GOOD ONES.
Today I think it is more of a challenge but we'd do the same thing all over again. A Christian school helped make it easier. Other parents did the same thing.
It's really a battle for the minds of kids.
I WAS OUT EARLY BUT EVEN THEN IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT…INDOCTRINATION WAS BEING IMPLEMENTED. I LAUGHED IT OFF AND THEIR CONTROL NEVER WORKED….THEY LITERALLY WERE ALWAYS FRUSTRATED WITH ME B/C I WAS WAY WAY PAST THEIR TEACHINGS OF HISTORY THAT WERE SIMPLY A TRAINING CLASS TO ACCEPT THE EXPERIMENT AS REPARATIONS AND EVERYONE IS SPECIAL SO YOU HAVE TO LET THEM WALK ALL OVER YOU…DO NOT BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES. I USED TO TAKE THE TESTS AND SKIP ALL THE OTHER CLASS/HOMEWORK. I OFTEN WALKED OUT OF CLASS AFTER I HEARD ENOUGH OR WAS DONE WITH SOME TEST. TOO BAD I COULD HAVE LEARNED A FEW THINGS HAD I BEEN AMONG INTELLIGENT TEACHER INSTEAD OF TEACHING TO THE STATE TEST FOR DUMMYS.
The real issue is that parents are so bad at parenting now they have no idea or worse, could careless what their underage children are doing on the internet.
It’s worse than that, the parents are handing their phones to toddlers to keep them occupied SO THEY DON’T HAVE TO PARENT.
PARENTS ARE LIKE THE GRAND MOTHER BABY SITTER THEY SEE ONCE A YEAR AND HAVE DECIDED THEY DONT NEED TO LISTEN TO THEM.
KIDS ARE CONSTANTLY TOLD THEIR PARENTS ARE POS AND ARE EVIL. THE BALANCE NEEDS TO START WITH HOME SCHOOL. OR A COOP SCHOOL OF LIKE MINDED FAMILYS ABLE TO NAVIGATE THE CULT STATUS THE STATE WILL ATTACK THEM WITH FOR BEING CARING PARENTS.
Just two weeks ago, Zuckerberg agreed to a “landmark” settlement of up $18 billion to resolve a massive federal lawsuit brought by a coalition of U.S. state attorney generals who accused Zuckerberg of design flaws that addicted underage children to Zuckerberg’s social media platforms, leaving them scarred and mentally ill.
What's missing from this story is any accountability from the parents who allow their kids to have Facebook & Instagram downloaded on their kids electronic devices.
BARFLIES ( BAR members):
1. PUKE JUDGES
2. PUKE PROSECUTORS
3. VOMIT "DEFENSE" PUKE
4. We The People are chattel in their ens legis ( thing legislated) gristmill ( crushes to powder ).
It’s not Zuckerberg’s fault that people become addicted to his digital universe. Zuckerberg should have been sued into bankruptcy for censoring his digital town square known as Facebook. Congress should have nipped that in the bud decades ago.
2020 ELECTION INTERFERENCE WAS NOT STOPPED BY CONGRESS BEFORE OR AFTER…WONDER IF THERE WAS MONEY IN IT FOR BOTH OF THEM. FYI THAT WAS RHETORICAL.
ALL of these people at facebook and mental health "professionals" are is a giant circle jerk. Passing money around for the pleasure and self-satisfaction of themselves.
OUR MONEY GOES FROM COMPANY TO POLITICIAN TO MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD TO COMPANY TO POLITICIAN TO MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD ETC.
WANNA GUESS WHO IS MARRIED TO ALL MEDIA? CONGRESS AND CEOS.
WANNA GUESS WHAT THE MOST GLARING COMMON DENOMINATOR IS IN THIS ENTIRE EQUATION?
* THAT IS A FACT NOT BIAS.
It's a save bet that what ever cockzuckerberg does it's for his benefit overall.
They always blame someone else for the problems with the kids, Parents monitor your kids or better yet remove the device's all together. Problem solved.
Not a dime will go to help children, the lawyers and bureaucrats will pocket the lion share
Pfizer and Moderna through Fauci hurt all humanity and pay nothing.
They got away with it through the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA, which allows their use during public health emergencies – only it was a fake plandemic. They also rigged it to have no liability for the experimental shots when other alternatives appeared to not be available. Fauci knew HCQ and ivernectin were cheap solutions that worked but not available for that. It was criminal.
THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS FOR SALE AND WE CAN NOT AFFORD THE PRICE OF ADMISSION.
AMERICA IS A PLATFORM FOR THE ELITE TO BUY AND SELL, WE THE PEOPLE ARE MERELY THE JANITORS ALLOWED TO CLEAN AND PICK UP THE SCRAPS LIKE SERFS……IN OUR HOME THEY OPERATE WITH IMPUNITY.
EVERY TIME ONE OF THE MASSIVE FINES ARE PAID…….THE RESULTING CRIMES CONTINUE UNABATED. IT SEEMS TO BE THE ADMISSION PRICE OF THE ORIGINAL ATROCITY.
BILL GATES MICROSOFT ANTI TRUST SUIT MAY OF 1998 RESULTED IN THE BREAK UP OF MICROSOFT…..WELL THAT NEVER HAPPENED AND IN THE END HE PAID 800,000.00 IN FINE IN 2004……SLOW WALKING THE PENALTY WHILE CONVICTING MS WAS THE ESSENTIALLY THE 1ST REAL TECH ABUSE CHALLENGE BY OUR EVER SO PROTECTIVE GOVERNMENT. EVERY 6-9 MONTHS A NEW CASH GRAB IS REVEALED SO AS TO APPEAR TO BE WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE EVEN THOUGH THIS MONEY NEVER SEEMS TO MAKE IT BACK TO THE PEOPLE. IN FACT OUR TAXES JUST WENT UP WITH THIS "RULING"/
****BOTTOM LINE ****
PAY "THE GOVERNMENT" AND YOU ARE UNTOUCHABLE BUT HEY AT LEAST THE KIDS ARE FREE GAME TO THESE PARASITES.
NOTES BELOW TO EXPLAIN {FOOT NOTES}
*ANTI COMPETITIVE TACTICS
* BUNDLING
* BROWSER MANIPULATION
* 3RD [ARTY SOFTWARE INTERFERENCE SO YOU NEEDED TO PAY THEM TO USE SOFTWARE TO DO THINGS MS DECIDED YOU DID NOT WANT
* Initial Ruling: U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft violated sections of the Sherman Antitrust Act and ordered the company to split into two separate entities.
Sept. 7, 2026, "let's keep big Pharma from taking the money from this law suit, to drug , our innocent children out of there minds" "We must protect our children from ,Big Pharma!!!"
WOW! So how much did the alcohol industry pay the overlord fascist, for addicting our kids to alcohol? How much did Hollyweird pay the overlords for addicting our kids to tv? On and On and On. LMAO
YOU ARE THE SOLE VOICE OF REASON AMONG THE PEOPLE. DO YOU HAVE A COSTUME AND A SASH? DOES YOUR BF BEAT YOU TOO MUCH…NOT ENOUGH? I AM SURE FB IS WATCHING AND EVER SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE YOU AS A WARRIOR ON HIS SIDE.
MY GOD YOU ARE PATHETIC.
I hope you arent a parent.
YOU POST FOR ATTENTION. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO ADD OR POSSES AN INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT…YOU JUST WANT PEOPLE TO AGREE WITH YOU. PEOPLE YOU DONT EVEN KNOW. I STAND BY MY ASSERTION.
What did you add? Other then showing what a weak gooberment owned coward you are? LMAO But youre funny.
IS GOVERNMENT TOO HARD FOR YOU TO SPELL OR IS YOUR BFS JUNK SLURRING YOUR SPEECH.
Give that to the families, you evil F_cking bike!
The Families? What families? the ones that allow their kids to get addicted to nonsense? F them.
Im addicted to Fakebook Marketplace. How much do I get?
While sheeples kids are crying about what some stranger called them on Fakebook, my 4 year old granddaughter shot her first grouse with a .22 yesterday.
See the difference?
A 4 YO WITH A GUN AND YOU ARE PROUD OF YOURSELF. WOULD YOU GIVE A 4YO A CHAINSAW OR A SKILL SAW? NAIL GUN? NO CONSERVATIVE WANTS YOU IN THEIR SIGHT LINE MAYBE LINE OF SIGHT BUT BETTER YOU JUST BE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
LMAO, You are one F up kid.
OK SO YOUR MOTHER DID NOT LIKE YOU BUT WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME WHAT SHE SAID TO YOU WHEN YOU HANDED A GUN TO A 4 YO CHILD? I ASSUME YOU ARE NOW AGREEING WITH ME OR WAS IT JUST YOUR WHOLE FAMILY.
What psycho give a 4 year old a gun?
Hopefully no psycho does. Please dont give your kids a gun. My God you sheep are ignorant and scared.
Anyone that lets a 4 year old hold a loaded gun is a psycho.
Thanks for proving me right, again.
Yup we agree that whoever gave your grandchild a loaded gun is a psycho.
You foreign trolls are so boring.
AbleChild is a scam like this website and Trumps presidency. No one has made more money from insider trading and kickbacks than Trump. No one has added more national debt than Trump. No one is more corrupt than Trump.
You dumbed down weak demonazis are sure funny. LMAO
America electing con-artist with dementia is not funny. Everyone suffers.
How much do we the people get back from our gooberment, for addicting generations of kids to welfare?
Not a fan of Zuckerberg or facebook (never had one), but parents need to control their children and stop blaming someone else for your own lack of parenting skills…
I was beginning to wonder if anybody but me was going to get it. Have fun reading below. Its filled with ignorance.
So why did you vote for him?
Because I am an illegal and I want to be killed in ICE detention.
Thats awesome. But Vegetablejoe didnt detain anyone. You foreign trolls are F clueless. LMAO
Trump is currently president.
So why do you bring up Vegetablejoe?
I didn't. You did.
Noooo, you did. Hes the only conman with dementia. You scared ignorant foreign troll. LMAO
Objectively both Biden and Trump are demented conmen. Both should be in jail for their crimes and corruption. But you can't see that because you are blind.
Im blind and you voted for a Vegetable. LMAO
How can I vote if I am a foreign troll? You are what Trump calls low IQ.
Lots of illegals vote. You are the perfect foreign troll. Very F stupid. LMAO
Trump loves stupid people.
No one is more corrupt than Trump.
He even admits it because his brain is turning to mush:
“I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “Very unfair, but what can you do!”
These fines are all BS….
There is a serious mental disorder affecting millions: Cerebral Short Circuitry (CSC). The symptoms are manifested by extreme difficulty deciding what a man or woman is, whether boys should use girls bathrooms and whether men should compete in women’s sports.
Our NATION, those 250 years ago, was INTENDED & DESIGNED by our Founders to be one where We the People, collectively, are to hold POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY; that is, we are to be a FREE PEOPLE [read: we are to be a People in charge of our own Destiny].
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY provides RIGHTS to INDIVIDUALS, but no such provisions are possible unless We the People, beforehand, also continually and forever perform our PATRIOTIC DUTIES. [Such PATRIOTIC DUTIES — you know, these that come BEFORE RIGHTS — are presented in our Declaration of Independence.]
Zuckerberg and all the other Big Tech criminal OLIGARCHS — that is, Big Tech GOVT-SUPPORTED MONOPOLIES, really — are what have emerged broadly throughout our NATION when such powerfully influential technology advances while simultaneously We the People — COLLECTIVELY — are not performing our PATRIOTIC DUTIES and are thereby surrendering our Certain Unalienable RIGHTS to these same entities.
Freedom is not free — yes, most of us know this SLOGAN — but as all American Adults need to know and appreciate — particularly during challenging times, such as the ones in which we live — these PATRIOTIC DUTIES are required BEFOREHAND so that we may earn our RIGHTS.
MAGA & MAHA!
The same bloodsucking Big Tech vampires doing THIS are the same bloodsucking Big Tech vampires building AI data centers over our objections.
Hold your state attorney general accountable. They are the ones who cut a deal with Meta.
I JUST READ AN ARTICLE HERE THAT SAID MILLIONS ARE BEING SPENT TO TURN US AGAINST DATA CENTERS SO FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND WE NEED TO NOT ONLY ACCEPT THESE DATA CENTERS BUT WELCOME THEM….SO AS NOT TO CAVE TO THE MANIPULATION…….SIGH.
SEEMS TO ME IF I OWNED A LARGE COMPANY I WOULD JUST BUILD ONE OF THESE DATA CENTERS WITH SELF SUSTAINING POWER AND COOLING. PERHAPS UNDERGROUND WHERE TEMPS ARE AMBIENT OR IN COLD CLIMATES LIKE BLUE MINNESOTA….BUT APPARENTLY LIKE FOOTBALL STADIUMS WE THE PEOPLE ARE SOMEHOW BENEFITED BY THEM AND THEREFOR MUST PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF OUR PERSONAL FREEDOMS AND DATE BEING SOLD,MANIPULATED AND USED AGAINST US. BY WEAKENING OUR POWER GRIDS/GIVING THEM PRIORITY OR POLLUTION IN OUR WATER SUPPLY ETC.
WHO KNEW….
This is as logical as the weed industry making donations to "education" after they make huge profits marketing to kids with edibles
NO IT IS NOT. WE GET IT YOU ARE AGAINST WEED. KIDS ARE NOT ON PAR WITH YOUR WEED AGENDA THERE SKIPPY.
THIS IS AKIN/LOGICAL TO GIVING MONEY TO A DRUG DEALER TO FIX THE KIDS YOU SOLD INTO PEDO WORLD.
Yeah, pour the money into the school systems so they can get fat pay raises and continue to groom kids according to their trans ideology.
I watched the "gta-VI" trailer on Netflix and was disgusted. Literally just black and brown thug/drug culture. Not surprised unsupervised minors and lost young adults are literally playing this game out on big city streets.
Zuckerberg…….do you know you are a target? Live in fear.