Sparks: Meta agrees to pay $18 billion to settle US teen addiction lawsuits

How long shall we tolerate architects of ruin who design labyrinths of addiction, then plead complexity when the children they ensnared demand justice?

They settled for eighteen billion like it’s a fine, not an admission they built a factory that turns kids into customers for life.

If a man builds a trap and calls it a garden, the law must ask whether the flowers were ever meant to grow.

The screen flickers; your peace of mind does not. Choose which to master.

The creature they abandoned to the algorithm’s hunger now demands its maker’s gold - and still no hand reaches to guide it home.

Eighteen billion won’t buy back the hours lost, but it’s a start - now show me the route out.

A modest proposal: let the architects of these platforms spend a year addicted to their own creations, then report on their findings.

'We take the wellbeing of young users seriously.' The passive voice conceals the hands that engineered the harm.

They trained girls to crave validation like air, then called it nature when the screens became their only mirror.

In every city, the same scrolls of light ensnare the young - only the currency of distraction changes.