BAES 168: The sad truth about Meta's big teen settlement

**Emil** (0:00)
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**Ben** (0:24)
Yeah. Are you on Twitter and Facebook? Have you experienced pain and suffering due to the like button?

**Emil** (0:29)
Meta is being sued, X is being sued, YouTube is being sued, whoever is being sued. Usually a lot doesn't come out of it. This one.

**Ben** (0:37)
So much come from it.

**Emil** (0:39)
There is so much come. Meta designed this platform.
Or their platforms to be intentionally addictive to children. Citing features like the infinite scroll as purposely engineered to keep young users, not just young users, I mean.

**Ben** (0:55)
Everybody.

**Emil** (0:56)
Come on, look at me. You know you've been endlessly scrolling.

**Ben** (0:58)
Yeah.

**Emil** (0:59)
Who hasn't?

**Ben** (0:59)
Yeah. Section 230 You can't sue us.
Sorry. We're not responsible.

**Emil** (1:04)
Which the Internet would basically be unusable without it because no one would be able to publish anything online without being liable for things other people are saying.

**Ben** (1:13)
But this is now changing because clearly they are becoming responsible for the way they design their products, not necessarily the content they're in. They never broke it down by app.
So who knows, when you say social media, you don't know what apps these teens are using.

**Emil** (1:28)
Have you checked Alltrails? These kids are crazy about Alltrails.

**Ben** (1:32)
Maybe Alltrails is making your daughter suicidal.

**Emil** (1:36)
Are you sure? Wait, wait, wait.
Was your teen on Alltrails?

**Ben** (1:40)
Or MapQuest, perhaps?
Boy, oh, what's going on, everybody? What is going on? Wow.

**Emil** (2:11)
I just got scolded for being a bad boy.

**Ben** (2:13)
You got scolded for being a bad boy. Hey guys, if you want to know what's going on, you came to the right place. My name Ben.

**Emil** (2:20)
I'm Emil, the bad boy of the show.

**Ben** (2:23)
And this week we are covering everything you need to know about Meta's big settlement.

**Emil** (2:30)
Spoiler alert, they fixed it. Everything's good now. Don't worry.

**Ben** (2:34)
There are some loopholes. There are some funny, nitty gritty details that you guys will find interesting just as well as I did when I poured through the judgment last night. Oh boy, boy.
You should see my notes here. Babu.

**Emil** (2:48)
I can see them. It's a lot of that old stuff from the 2000s where it's like you used equal signs and stuff to make penises.

**Ben** (2:55)
Oh, ASCII art?

**Emil** (2:56)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

**Ben** (2:57)
I remember getting one of those.
There was a thing that you could do in a, in a, what was it called? AOL instant messenger. And you could flood chat rooms with like a giant stick figure guy holding a big, you were doing that kind of stuff.
They were called punters. They were cool. And it felt like I was a hacker. I was like, well, this is cool. Anyway, but before we get into that, join us in the bonus, won't you? And support the show, Ben and emilshow.com. I'm going to be talking about how I fell on some rocks last week and injured myself, fell on my back, somehow injured my front rib. And that's why it was painful for me to sneeze just now before we started. I think I have a cracked rib. Ooh, he's not very good.

**Emil** (3:37)
He's not very fun, but, and I'm going to tell Ben all about my new favorite video game.

**Ben** (3:43)
That's exciting.
Gamer Emil? What?

**Emil** (3:47)
Emil has entered his gamer era.

**Ben** (3:49)
And then also join the website because we're doing Q&A today. That's just for subscribers only. And if you missed that, too bad, so sad, and maybe next time. Also, our Costco video, the extended version is up there.

**Emil** (4:01)
People are losing their minds.

**Ben** (4:03)
People are absolutely going freak.

**Emil** (4:06)
Freak mode.

**Ben** (4:07)
Freak mode. They love Costco.
I wish I had taken a shower before that video. God damn it, man. Whatever. Anyway, also, what else is? Last week's episode was a veritable banger. Everybody's going crazy for it. They're saying that it's classic Ben and Emil show stuff.

**Emil** (4:24)
That's what I'm hearing.

**Ben** (4:25)
The bitch is back Elton John style Elton John style.
Okay. Meta, Mark Zuckerberg.