"Court documents reveal staff considered ways to `get academic community to disavow' influential US author"

Litigation discovery is perhaps the best source of truth regarding so-called "tech" companies

"Minutes from a meeting on 8 March 2023 mention "Curtiss", an apparent reference to Meta's then vice-president of research, Curtiss Cobb. It states: "Curtiss's goal for this work: how do we get the academic community to disavow Haidt. Can't co-opt them, so how do we enrage them ... so the media finds him not credible."

"It suggests getting someone called "Gellman" to write "a takedown piece".

"Gelman said he had received money from Mark Zuckerberg's company in the past on a "no-strings" basis but had never been asked by Meta to look at social media's impact on teenagers' health."