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Meta employs tobacco-industry-style public relations tactics by marketing standard safety measures (content moderation, parental controls) as premium features while avoiding discussion of potentially addictive platform design features like infinite scroll and algorithmic feeds that research links to adolescent mental health harms. With regulatory scrutiny intensifying globally—including social media bans for minors under 16 in Australia, pending legislation in multiple countries, and thousands of negligence lawsuits in US courts—IT leaders should recognize that Meta's current approach prioritizes perception management over fundamental product redesign, creating significant legal and reputational risks for the industry. This pattern signals that technology companies face an imminent regulatory inflection point where safety features alone will not satisfy stakeholders, requiring genuine product architecture changes rather than communications strategies.