Andy Stone
@andymstone.bsky.social
Meta communications
"Notable online pugilist"
"Notable online pugilist"
Oh, Casey. @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social offered the caveat that “everything here relies on plaintiffs’ context." Would encourage you to please consider the same.
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At the very end of this thread, Jeff, you include a caveat that “everything here relies on plaintiffs’ context.” Turns out that was burying the lede.
I’ve spent almost seven years covering Meta and have had a good deal of exposure to internal work product on teen well-being. But a Friday filing in the school district social media litigation breaks some ground on Meta’s causal findings regarding social media harm.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Oh, Casey. @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social offered the caveat that “everything here relies on plaintiffs’ context." Would encourage you to please consider the same.
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A pilot of the study ran. Researchers analyzed the results and found the study didn't overcome those expectation effects. That was the "company's disappointment" (not the reductive way you frame it in your story) and the reason the project didn't continue.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A pilot of the study ran. Researchers analyzed the results and found the study didn't overcome those expectation effects. That was the "company's disappointment" (not the reductive way you frame it in your story) and the reason the project didn't continue.
Meta researchers were concerned about this going in. They spent months trying to design a study with the specific goal of overcoming what are called “expectation effects,” the idea that beliefs and expectations influence perception.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Meta researchers were concerned about this going in. They spent months trying to design a study with the specific goal of overcoming what are called “expectation effects,” the idea that beliefs and expectations influence perception.
This is a confirmation of other public research ("deactivation studies") out there that demonstrates the same effect. It makes intuitive sense but it doesn’t show anything about the actual effect of using the platform.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is a confirmation of other public research ("deactivation studies") out there that demonstrates the same effect. It makes intuitive sense but it doesn’t show anything about the actual effect of using the platform.
The study you trumpeted in your story as some kind of smoking gun? What it found was people who believed using Facebook was bad for them felt better when they stopped using it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The study you trumpeted in your story as some kind of smoking gun? What it found was people who believed using Facebook was bad for them felt better when they stopped using it.
More Boasberg: "Taking all the evidence together, it shows that personal social networking is not a separate product market. Instead, Meta competes in the market for social media, and that market includes — at minimum — TikTok and YouTube as well."
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
More Boasberg: "Taking all the evidence together, it shows that personal social networking is not a separate product market. Instead, Meta competes in the market for social media, and that market includes — at minimum — TikTok and YouTube as well."