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Meta INTENTIONALLY Suppressed Evidence Of Social Media’s Harm!

2025-11-28 News & Politics
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Big Tech's Hypocrisy: Burying Research on Social Media's Mental Health Damage

Uncover why Meta allegedly buried internal data proving quitting social media reduces depression and anxiety, exposing a vast psychological trap engineered for profit.

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  • Meta allegedly halted "Project Mercury," internal research showing users felt less depressed and anxious after logging off Facebook and Instagram.
  • Hosts criticize Big Tech for hypocrisy, comparing the cover-up to historic tobacco industry denialism regarding known harms.
  • The discussion traces social media's polarized, addictive nature back to its origins with DARPA, framing the digital landscape as a system profiting from misery. This segment scrutinizes ongoing multidistrict litigation targeting major platforms (Meta, Google, Snap, TikTok) for knowingly harming youth while misleading regulators.

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Reports recently emerged indicating that the Meta corporation actively buried internal research showing Facebook users became less depressed and anxious once they logged off the social network. Guest host Chris Keane, along with Americans’ comedian Kurt Metzger, and Jimmy Dore Show producer Mischa Paullin, hammers at the hypocrisy of Big Tech, mocking Meta’s excuses while comparing the company’s behavior to tobacco-style denialism. The discussion widens into a blistering critique of how social media fuels polarization, addiction, and mass manipulation—while DARPA’s origins of the whole system loom ominously in the background. By the end, the hosts frame the entire digital landscape as an engineered psychological trap that profits from human misery while pretending to protect the public. Follow Chris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrisgkeene Chris’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chrisgkeene Kurt Metzger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kurtmetzger Kurt’s website: http://www.KurtMetzgerComedy.com Follow Mischa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mickmackpaullin Mischa’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mickmackpaullin Become a Premium Member: https://www.jimmydore.com/premium-membership Go to a Live Show: https://www.jimmydore.com/tour Subscribe to Our Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jimmydorecomedy/ytlivestreams LIVESTREAM & LIVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS: Email: https://mailchi.mp/jimmydorecomedy/ytlivestreams Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JimmyDoreShow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejimmydoreshow WATCH / LISTEN FREE: Videos: https://www.jimmydore.com Podcasts: https://www.jimmydore.com (Also available on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcast player.) ACCESS TO FULL REPLAYABLE LIVESTREAMS: Become a Premium Member: https://www.jimmydore.com/premium-membership SUPPORT THE JIMMY DORE SHOW: Make a Donation: https://www.jimmydore.com/ Buy Official Merch (Tees, Sweatshirts, Hats, Bags): https://thejimmydoreshow.dashery.com/ https://dobynsfamilycreations.com/collections/the-jimmy-dore-show-store DOWNLOAD OUR MOBILE APP: App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jimmy-dore/id839294547 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jimmydore.jimmydore Jimmy Dore on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Dore Stef Zamorano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/miserablelib About The Jimmy Dore Show: #TheJimmyDoreShow is a hilarious and irreverent take on news, politics and culture featuring Jimmy Dore, a professional stand up comedian, author and podcaster. The show is also broadcast on Pacifica Radio Network stations throughout the country.

Top Comments (10)

@panamatom9804 2025-11-28

Meta's another cog in the Small Hat wheel

114 2 replies
@afaegfsgsdef 2025-11-28

I got banned from facebook for talking bad about Israel... but human traffickers get 17 strikes?

82 14 replies
@malcolmnicoll1165 2025-11-28

“Ownership of the media is always in the hands of the perpetrators.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

77 3 replies
@pegnas 2025-11-28

Arguably social media is one of the most detrimental things in today's culture.

73 12 replies
@tisenhow 2025-11-28

They are well aware that FB and YT is a dopamine hit

67 7 replies
@sean247 2025-11-28

Can’t wait for Satan to call Mark back home.

60 8 replies
@Ryan-gz9on 2025-11-28

Meta tried to build a data center here in Michigan. People told them to get bent

50 7 replies
@TrinieLounsbury 2025-11-28

I almost feel bad for the people that thought that tool was a decent person.

43 2 replies
@Easy_Skanking 2025-11-28

Yeah, I stopped using Facebook back in.....oh wait. I've NEVER used that CIA funded self-doxxing and profiling honeypot.

40 5 replies
@mkhud50n 2025-11-28

They KNEW social media was bad BEFORE there was social media. Really the problem is their algorithms.

40 1 replies

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