Senator Richard Blumenthal criticizes Meta's unreleased prediction market app Arena, comparing it to addictive slot-machine designs

Meta copied slot machines to addict kids to Instagram. Now Zuckerberg is turning his company into a prediction market. Meta’s business model is profiting from addiction—kids, gamblers, & more. Stop it through KOSA & my prediction markets bills. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/technology/meta-prediction-markets-app.html

@SenBlumenthal @GaryMarcus Just sell crack next?

@SenBlumenthal Your KOSA will fail to protect kids you 80 year old fossilized censorship loving freak.

You need to be given the boot out of congress ASAP.

@SenBlumenthal Bullshit, KOSA ain't gonna stop Zuckerberg and his company Meta from all the crap you're saying, instead.. it's making him more powerful in the process because your piece of shit bill makes them more powerful alongside with the various bad actors like predators and so on!

@SenBlumenthal Reminder: "protecting children" is the kind of excuse they used to push for a TikTok ban, too. They could have banned the addictive practices themselves, thereby protecting EVERYONE. But that's not what they really wanted then, and it isn't what they want now.

@SenBlumenthal

@SenBlumenthal Because government should control people

@SenBlumenthal Zuckerberg is a plague on this earth, but fuck your attempts at furthering a censorship riddled surveillance state in the name of "but think of the children"

Get fucked

@SenBlumenthal Breaking! Blumenthal caught in bribes with Meta and Zuckerberg!

@SenBlumenthal lol do you think parents are too stupid to raise their own kids?

They need the government to do it?

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@SenBlumenthal Stop it by giving them government IDs. Idiotic idea.

@SenBlumenthal @jason_kint a wretched degenerate company

@SenBlumenthal Coincidence?

@Doug_VanHouten @SenBlumenthal Who elects the government?

@SenBlumenthal All this will do is make him more powerful and allow the bad actors to track down and stalk their victims more easily.

I think it's best off for you and Bullshitburn to get out of the damn office and never run for it again, the retirement home sure is calling!

@SenBlumenthal @Cwezel1 Operant conditioning by B. F. Skinner Its not the reward but the expectation of reward that releases Dopamine

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@SenBlumenthal No. This is a mass surveillance bill. https://www.badinternetbills.com/