Post by Sven De Coninck

My feed is on fire right now. People like Thomas Smolders and Joeri Casteleyn are calling out what many of us are feeling: ads for AI nudify apps, tools that digitally undress people without consent, are advertising freely on Facebook and Instagram. Meta is profiting from the promotion of digital sexual violence. On its own platforms. 😤 Their outrage is real. And justified. This is happening right after two US juries delivered historic verdicts against Meta. Last Monday: a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million for concealing child exploitation risks. The next day: a Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube negligent for designing addictive platforms. If we put these three facts side by side: → Found guilty of concealing child exploitation. → Found guilty of harmful, addictive design. → Still running ads promoting tools for digital sexual violence. This isn't a company making mistakes. This is a business model working as designed. Attention at any cost. Revenue at any cost. That's why we need to talk about what comes #next. Beyond the growing outrage and the growing pushback from governments something cracked last week. 2,400 lawsuits are waiting. The European Parliament just voted to ban nudify apps entirely. Most commentary focuses on what this means FOR Meta. I'm more interested in what it means for our online ecosystem as a whole. There's a massive whitespace forming between what's being torn down and what hasn't been built yet. The attention economy isn't disappearing, but its logic of 'maximize engagement at any cost' just got a legal expiration date. My two cents: The answer isn't less technology. It's better technology. #Technology that treats human attention as something to protect, not extract. And business models that fit that specific goal. The #builders who move now won't just avoid the next lawsuit. They'll define what comes after. Founders, product leaders, investors. Is this changing how you think about what we're building? #AttentionEconomy #ChildSafety #ResponsibleTech #ProductDesign #DigitalWellbeing