The GTA 6 Leaks Change Everything

PDS Published 08/20/2026

• Meta Recruited a 9-Year-Old to Promote its Team Safety Features

  these new GTA six league's keep coming. They're getting crazier.

  And you also have the internet divided on what the real scandal actually New evidence claims it meta recruited a nine year old to promote its teen safety features.

  But really, the problems just grow from you've got big new updates around the bricks and minifig a politician who backed the death penalty for child sex offenders is now facing

  five felony charges involving a we're talking about all of that and even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news, starting with this.

  just cannot trust Mark Zuckerberg with kids. is an actual quote we just got from an ex Facebook engineer. And it seems to be confirmed day after day.

  Because you have meta in the news for several reasons right now.

  And all have to do with its harmful effects on kids, starting with this latest investigation from the Tech Transparency Project, which knows that as governments around the world debated proposals to ban social media for kids under a certain age, Manafort back with a global PR campaign.

  saying they were recruiting lifestyle, parenting and mental health influencers to promote the safety of Instagram's teen accounts and countries including India, Brazil, Canada, France, Spain and the UK.

  or because if you're in a teen, accounts are meant for users between the ages of 13 and 17, and they come with stuff like privacy protections and content filters. and this was explicitly a way for meta to be like, hey, we've got this.

  We're protecting kids on our own. Pretty please do not regulate us.

  Thing is, though, there are serious doubts about how well these accounts actually work for a number of reasons, including testers reportedly seeing sexual and body image content on them.

  then you have things like one of the influencers that meta recruited to promote them. It was a kid from the UAE with nearly half a million followers.

  That appears to be just nine years old, who, I mean, just way too young for the teen account.

  and so overall, you're saying the situation where meta has got this uphill climb to try to win over public opinion and that is only going to get steeper, come October.

  and that's because then you'll have Sony Pictures set to release a sequel to The Social Network called A Social Reckoning.

  And it's about whistleblowers exposing how Facebook covered up all the terrible shit that it was doing. I'm a free speech absolutist. I'm not the one who's lying. And I'm not stopping them from seeing someone who is.

  Anxiety. Depression of teenage girls got worse as a result of time spent on the platform. I don't want to be made an example of by a guy with unlimited resources.

  I promise you is imminent. Enough people around here understand that when I say no. That's the end of the debate. side note. Jeremy Strong.

  Just nailing that.

  also, if you can't wait for the film, that's fine, because more or less, that same drama is playing out right now in a federal courtroom in Oakland with the real Mark Zuckerberg.

  Because for the next six weeks or so, you got meta.

  And during this massive trial with a lawsuit that was brought by 29 states and they allege three things. first of the company made its platforms addictive to children.

  Second, that it misled the public about those dangers, and third, that it violated those same kids data privacy, all of which, critics argue has driven a historic price in youth, depression, anxiety, and in some cases, suicide.

  now, initially, the plaintiffs estimated that Medicare owed damages of up to $1.4 trillion with a T, which made a lot of sensational headlines.

  since then, they've apparently lowered that number to less than $200 billion, which is about as much as met his entire revenue in 2025. still a lot of money, but obviously a lot less than that 1.4 number.

  then also if this sub $200 billion number is used as a benchmark for other lawsuits, then meta could be staring down much, much bigger numbers.

  and so that's why some of the media have taken the California attorney general's lead in calling this trial meta as tobacco moment. Right.

  Without referring to the huge payouts that tobacco companies had to fork over in the 1990s for deceiving customers about the dangers of their products.

  with that said, in their defense Matters spokesperson was like that analogy is wildly inappropriate, arguing.

  First of all, they reject the claim that their platforms are harmful, saying they're not. Secondly, they say cigarets are simply bad with no upside. Saying social media clearly gives people value.

  and thirdly, they say they do not target children and they've done tons of stuff to protect them. But then also they're like, hey, why are you singling us out?

  arguing YouTube and TikTok. They're way more popular with kids. And Facebook and Instagram. right. Go bother them. then you've got critics saying, okay, you're just proving the point.

  tobacco companies also insisted for decades that their products were neither harmful nor addictive, and that they never targeted children.

  meanwhile, you've got people pointing to 1988 with camel launching a Joe Camel ad campaign which featured an anthropomorphic camel often dressed in a leather jacket or tuxedo, Jill in a bar surrounded by adoring women.

  With a message appearing clear. If you smoke camel, you're hit. You're smooth. You're super masculine. mean, look at that nose.

  and in fact, by 1991, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that more six year olds could recognize Joe Camel than could identify Mickey Mouse or Fred Flintstone.

  meanwhile, many of the tobacco either wouldn't smoke themselves or didn't let their kid smoke it. It's the same story today with tech.

  you've got people like Microsoft's Bill gates saying he didn't give his kids cell phones until they were 14. Google's Sundar Pichai remarked that his 11 year old son still didn't have a phone.

  Apple's Tim Cook said he wouldn't let his nephew on social media.

  longtime Facebook board member investor Peter Thiel said he limited his toddlers to an hour and a half a week of screen time. last but not least, Zuckerberg himself said in 2017.

  if our daughters want to want to use this to video chat with, with their cousins or their grandparents, I think that that's wonderful.

  And I think all the research would generally support that.

  But I don't generally, just, you know, want my kids to be sitting in front of a, a TV or a computer for a long period of time.

  so with all this, you have The New York Times concluding about these tech executives for their children. Tech does not play the same role it does for the rest of society. teacher, babysitter. All purpose distraction.

  And increasingly constant companion.

  matter, they're going to argue that while kids do use their platforms, that's the parent's choice, right? Meta doesn't target them. but there you have the plaintiffs going.

  Okay, well, if that's true, then why are there accounts for My Little Pony, Paw Patrol, Peppa Pig, and SpongeBob? Right. Arguing that those clearly are meant for over their teens.

  well, of course, you know, Paw patrol is not the kind of content safety advocates are actually concerned about.

  And meta claims that it has safeguards in place to keep the bad stuff away from kids.

  Whistleblowers allege that for years, meta knew its platforms were addictive, knew how to make them less addictive, and chose not to because it only cared about the bottom line.

  and so yeah, these critics saying that when the company finally did implement guardrails, it did so because of public pressure, not genuine concern. even then they say the measures were mostly half assed and superficial.

  right.

  That's essentially what matters when we're engineering director Arturo Bejar testified in the trial, saying that Zuckerberg prioritized profit growth and engagement over child safety.

  you had him claiming that one.

  I met his safety tools, the one that reminds users to take a break that was designed to fail because it's not turned on by default. And reminders are easy to ignore.

  he also called it common knowledge at meta that most parents do not have the time to understand the company's products or how their children use them.

  even saying that meta had the tech to flag potentially millions of users suspected to be under 13, but adopted a don't ask, don't tell policy because it would boost profits in the long term.

  and they are is actually the guy who said the thing I quoted earlier, you just cannot trust Mark Zuckerberg with kids.

  and then you had during cross-examination, Meta's lawyers being like, okay, well, didn't you help your daughter set up an Instagram account? he would say, Harbi. I'm like, yeah, I did, because I didn't know the risks at the time.

  And guess what? She had to read misogynistic comments, including about her breasts.

  with all this, I should note that Bahari has been a thorn in Zuckerberg's side for a while now.

  He's actually testified as a key witness against meta in four separate trials so far, one of which, the New Mexico suit forced the company to pay nearly $1 billion in damages.

  but this one in California is actually expected to be the biggest. That is, if meta loses Right.

  Because first the jury has to issue an advisory verdict, and then the federal judge will decide whether meta is liable and if so, for how much. but really, what many investors fear most isn't a financial payout.

  It's an order forcing meta to actually change its policies.

  so, for example, you had one investment banker telling the economist, if we didn't have infinite scroll, which endlessly loads new posts, we wouldn't have as many ends.

  now if you take a look at meta stock since the trial got underway, some investors seem a little skittish. But they're really not jumping ship.

  and they're you analyst saying, well, that's probably because they're convinced that the burden of proof in the case is high enough. And regardless, meta can appeal if it loses.

  Or the thinking is that there's section 230 of the Communications Act that it can hide behind.

  Or if that doesn't work, Zuckerberg can always try to pull some strings of the white House.

  which I will say is at least one point where the analogy to cigarets does break down, because today the tech industry that you see is unquestionably the most powerful one on earth.

  That that just was not true about tobacco. Tobacco is big, but it was not the same thing.

  even with all that said, it's easy to forget that the latter not only survived, it thrived.

  in places like MarketWatch pointing out there was no smarter time to buy up as much tobacco stock as you could than the day they settled for some $200 billion in 1998. Right.

  Because since then, the bellwether stock for Philip Morris, known as Altria, it's compounded 12.3% per year compared to less than 9% for the S&P 500.

  to say that a different way, if you started with $1,000 in 1998, you would have 10,800 today if you went with the S&P or 25,500 if you bet on tobacco.

  so that's why you had them concluding the agreement did not end the addiction to tobacco. did not end the company's business model.

  cost ended up borne by smokers who paid much more for their cigarets to finance the settlement payments, before many of them died from smoking cigarets. and so.

  With this, my thinking is, even if meta ends up having to pay money here, money there, it's huge. it really doesn't seem like it's something that's going to kill meta.

  and I also don't have a lot of faith that we will get regulation in a way that is needed because, I mean, I think we have a lot of really old people in Congress that do not fully understand the internet.

  and there's also just so much money from the tech industry and other parallel industries that go into politics. maybe I'm just being a cynic. Who knows?

  maybe they're like, this close to figuring it out. and then we've got to talk about this crazy news out of Florida. But first just got to say, I'm so excited.

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• This GTA 6 Leak Drama is Insane

  But then diving right back into the news, we've got to talk about these Grand Theft Auto six leaks and all the scandal. because there's actually a long history of GTA leaks.

  But what is going on right now is reaching new heights, because you have this hacker or hackers known as cyber leak, like

  just so much ahead of the November 19th release and ahead of the Netflix extended look that's set to premiere on August and well right now you have Rockstar GTA Development Studio and take two Rockstar's

  parent company scrambling to take down the leagues and put out these fires as fast as they a a that's been backfiring because it basically shows people that the league surreal and b the social media situation is already out of

  They might be able to do some things, but the genie's already out of the Anyone can find the map of GTA six and images of gameplay at about two minutes, whether they're on TikTok, YouTube or

  here, I'm not going to go into too much detail that the leagues reportedly have featured previous unknown details like a fuel gauge on cars and previously unseen

  elements like melee combat and the return of the six star wanted But actually at the core of this story, you have cyber leak releasing a manifesto announcing exactly why

  they say they're doing the hacking and essentially it looks like an act of revenge or protest.

  They're pissed that Rockstar isn't releasing a physical disc of the even if you purchase a box copy of the game, you just get a so in their statement to Rockstar Cyber League,

  a digital copy cannot sell Yet publishers kept the preorder system and stripped away.

  It's only consumer Now gamers pay early and received nothing in return except account downtime or in a cosmetic you even had them sharing a press release with three commandments related to their frustration with Rockstar and GTA

  saying thou shalt not sell digital preorders, thou shalt not sell fake singleplayer DLC, and thou shalt preserve single player all very dramatic.

  Now it looks like there are original or I'll say their latest Twitter account that got taken down, but they also appear to be posting on another one as I'm leaks.

  Current Twitter banner reads we do not own the games if they do not give us physical with their old bio reading, fighting for players so at least from one angle.

  This appears to be the continuation or an offshoot of how much people have been angry around people not getting physical discs Because the physical disc thing, it's not a GTA thing that is an industry trend.

  We've even talked about it on the are you?

  Would Sony recently announcing that it was going to discontinue physical PlayStation discs in and while fans weren't happy about that news, we're very likely going to see more announcements like that coming in the future from other companies.

  but then also regarding the cyber leak hacking, you have a number of people saying, well, is it really just a moral crusade to protest the lack of physical that's because you've had many noting and Forbes even reporting that many other releases have had watermarks promoting a cryptocurrency for purchase.

  so, you've seen a rise of people going, oh, okay.

  Well, it seems like the leaker or leakers might have an ulterior but then also regarding the public's opinions about cyber leaks, you've got some cheering them on and others complaining about the fact that they're spoiling the right.

  One person commenting seriously, keep up the great saying I totally agree with what you're Big corporations have just been completely screwing over gamers lately and we absolutely needed something like this, even though it's a GTA

  then you've got others saying things like, buddy, stop, enough is understand that you're angry with Rockstar.

  You've already made it clear to them how you feel, but please the game gets delayed.

  Believe me, a lot of people will see you as an enemy rather than a also a thing that we're seeing is that people are reacting to when judging leaks without fully understanding what they're looking

  You've got people that are up in arms about the quality of the but they are a key thing is that really confirm that some of it is three years old and incomplete.

  Right now, regardless of how accurate or inaccurate they are. Rockstar.

  They haven't made an official statement about the leaks yet, but You are saying groups like Stop Killing Games, which advocates for legal protections for digital games, speaking saying in a statement this kind of act is destructive and helps no one worse.

  It risks tarnishing the reputation of our communities and our chances to make change.

  they also pointed out that cyber leak is promoting a meme coin and attaching crypto links.

  And they warned, do not send these people your Now, with all that said, is this situation going to have some catastrophic impact on how GTA six Personally,

  my gut says no, considering we're talking about one of the most successful franchises ever.

  and I mean that both for the core game of GTA six as well as the online as far as is Rockstar going to meet the hackers demands, that seems unlikely.

  but there are a number of very interesting conversations being had around It seems like yet another example that no one, no company, is ever really safe out there from getting mean, we've got AI agents out there hacking other AI companies.

  and well, AI doesn't seem like it was involved here.

  Rockstar and take two they're massive companies you assume they have some top tier protection also, it's going to be interesting to see how companies respond to people that are begging for physical discs.

  right?

  Regardless what you think about the hack, it's pushed that conversation back to the then lastly how does this affect potentially sales down the road in November as well as the hype or maybe lack of it regarding the Netflix event in a few days?

  though they're my personal prediction is that event is going to be even bigger because you've got people scrambling and scouring the internet to get all the different leaks together,

  and then they're going to want to compare it to what Rockstar puts forward to the right. How much of the leak was from three years ago? How does it compare?

  How much have we seen polished or maybe removed?

  then my guess from there is that unless there is a playable and decently playable version of the game that gets sales of this game are going to be like we've never seen before

  or rarely have seen but hey, let me know your thoughts, opinions and reactions to everything that's going down right now in those comments down but then actually from that we've got to talk about this situation in real world Right.

  Chapter 4: Republican Who Backed Death Penalty for Child Abusers Arrested for Child Abuse

  Because you just had a Florida Republican who backed the death penalty for pedophiles get arrested on five felony child sex abuse Yeah. And so this guy is Michael Caruso.

  He's a 67 year old married father, a seven who also happens to be a close political ally of Governor Ron DeSantis. Right. As far as his politics. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2018.

  He served until August of 2025, when he was nearing the end of his term limits, and Disanto appointed him as Palm Beach County Clerk of with it appearing like he had a close working relationship with the governor,

  who regularly praised him for supporting hard line causes in the legislature, reportedly calling him my representative after he became the only backer of controversial immigration legislation.

  beyond that, you had DeSantis giving Caruso's wife, Tracy, at least three juicy local appointments. and Caruso even campaigned with DeSantis in Iowa when he ran for president in 2024.

  the key thing that you have a lot of people pointing to is that back in 2023, while he was still serving in the You had him becoming a vocal supporter of Florida's capital sexual battery which allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty for people convicted of sexually battering a child under the age of Caruso.

  He voted in favor of the bill.

  DeSantis, who signed into law, reportedly called him a legend for his support of the legislation. but now.

  DeSantis says that Caruso could literally face the death penalty under that same law if because he's been charged with kidnaping, child molestation,

  lewd exhibition, luring or enticing a child, and child abuse causing mental and according to the arrest affidavit, the victim is a male child

  under the age of 12 and a relative of Caruso, who he allegedly molested multiple times from fall of 2024 to August of 2025.

  with this, including on a family cruise where he allegedly separated the child from his parents for at least an hour under the pretext of getting ice as well as on a Thanksgiving fishing trip where he took the boy fishing alone at a pond.

  very notably here.

  The report also said that the boy's father confronted Caruso in December of 2025, and while he denied the abuse, he still son, if you tell anyone I will get arrested, I will just go away.

  You tell anyone I'm going to And that was also allegedly echoed by his wife, Tracy, when the boy's father spoke to her as well, with the affidavit

  claiming she too warned that her husband would face a life in jail kind of thing if police were informed.

  But then, even beyond all that, the report also said that Caruso allegedly admitted that he knew that his daughter had previously accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior, including sexual battery, and that he acknowledged that he had showered with all his own no Caruso.

  For his part, he's denied the allegations, with his lawyer telling Mr.

  Caruso is innocent of these allegations and intends to vigorously defend himself against these but also just a few hours after his arrest, DeSantis

  signed an executive order suspending him from office, denying that he or anyone in his administration had been aware of the allegations.

  you had DeSantis also touting that 2023 capital punishment law, which he called the death penalty for pedophiles and said that if Caruso is convicted, he's going to be in a world of right.

  With all that said, while Caruso hasn't technically been charged with a sexual battery charge, the affidavit does claim that he committed an act of sexual battery of a child under the age of 12 we're going to have to see how that plays out there.

  But then also apparently we're waiting to see if he is still going to appear on the ballot in Right, because he is currently running for reelection and despite the fact that he is now literally in jail, his suspension reportedly doesn't impact his candidacy.

  with his lawyer telling reporters that he had no comment on his client's election plans and whether he would withdraw his candidacy and allow the Florida Republican Party to replace and then actually from that, let's cram

• Bricks & Minifigs Settles with Mansell Family

  in some more news and need to know with some quickies before I let you We're starting with this news and a video that's gone viral of a Detroit news anchor just crashing out on a supervisor.

  I don't think you are. You're walking out really angry, bitch. Jeez. Opiates. Can I please finish what I'm going to say? What the fuck?

  Grow up.

  I'm so done with her antics telling on me every five seconds of a lot of people have seen this. They don't know the full context.

  that was Taryn Asher. And while this video just blew up this week, it actually happened back in 2023.

  and it's been reported that apparently this was the type of behavior that got her pulled off the air in November of last year.

  She was then officially fired in but notably, that was also when she ended up filing a sex discrimination lawsuit against Fox Television Stations and New World Communications in Detroit, the owner and operator of her claiming that the station manager was treating her worse than her co-anchor.

  Root branch giving a more guest interviews, a better schedule, stuff like and she reportedly complained to the station manager about it, which she claims is what actually got her

  but there you had Fox speaking out this week, saying that her termination was not retaliatory or about her being a Instead, they say it was about her unprofessional workplace behavior

  and in addition to that, you people claiming that the pattern of this type of for example, you had her co-host complaining to Fox's HR department in the past that she was jealous and had an issue about men versus

  you then also have Asha's legal team denying that she had any outburst, a warranted disciplinary action or then you had them also adding that even if she did, other employees had similar, if not worse issues, and they didn't face the same consequences.

  you had them specifically calling out what employee who has got drunk driving, and another who apparently had severe anger issues and violent tendencies.

  but both of those people apparently got to keep their though also whatever the case actually is, Fox is already saying that they cannot be held responsible for any discrimination

  she may have reclaiming that it was contrary to their good faith efforts to comply with the so as things stand now, as you kind of just stuck waiting for this to play and that's because even though she's now out of her old station,

  she's dealing with a six month non-compete clause that's keeping other opportunities on hold until things get but she's also fighting to get out of that in the lawsuit as Also you've got the news that it appears

• Detroit News Anchor Caught on Cam Crashing Out on Crew Member

  that the power of outrage has finally forced bricks and minifigs to pull out its checkbook over an allegedly stolen 200,000 or so Star Wars So yeah. Have you been following this.

  They've agreed to settle with Brian Manziel. And as a cherry on top they even had to apologize.

  but also if you miss this crazy train or you need a refresher, Manziel consigned his father's massive Star Wars Lego collection to a bricks and minifigs in Then there was an owner swap and the collection allegedly went old owners and the new ones had it.

  The new owners flip flopped about whether they did, didn't, or even had to legally give them and the entire time bricks minifig corporate essentially made it clear they had no real idea of what they were and then walks.

  This initially smaller but now huge YouTuber Reckless Barney comes in, he makes his viral video series. He helps get millions and millions of views. and then oversimplifying everything.

  It all led to a series of lawsuits, including this know that said, we don't know how much the settlements for as of right man's house claim the collection was $200,000, but you had YouTuber Coffee Zilla

  investigating and finding that it was probably considerably less like in the 90 to $100,000 mean, that is still a crazy But it does look like maybe the man's eyes were using the most generous estimation

  for their stuff's but regardless of money, it looks like an apology was also a requirement With bricks CEO.

  Issuing an unqualified apology for the frustration while blaming the original owners because their contract was totally mismanaged.

  also reportedly the Manziel or transferring their legal rights to the property to Brix, which will then use it to sue the original then even their the legal circus isn't over you still have been facing defamation claims.

  And the man sells, at least as of right now, are still a codefendant.

  presumably this settlement addresses that the company was very clear that they are still going to go after then also in the news, we've got to talk about how when a doctor foresees

• Former Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty to Concealing COVID-Related Records

  former senior advisers just pled guilty to concealing official emails about and it's 78 years old.

  He could be behind bars for five years because of because you had Doctor David Morenz working with Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the pandemic.

  and he's been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States for trying to use his personal email instead of his government email to keep messages about the origins of Covid and Covid grant research funding from the in a lot of those emails

  were doing him and the president of a research nonprofit that lost funding for its work with the Wuhan lab that the Trump administration has been blaming for the start of the pandemic.

  and someone said that he purposely diverted the emails to protect scientists from baseless charges connected to allegations of a lab and there in some of his emails, apparently, he blatantly talked about plans to get around federal laws and learn how to, quote, make emails disappear.

  though, since then he called it a, quote, misguided attempt to protect people like Fauci from threats and to stop misinformation about the virus from now that it's all out there and he's pled guilty, he's going to be sentenced in Right.

  This is all just the latest in the Trump administration's push to link Doctor Morenz and Doctor Fauci to early chaos of the though right now, there's still no official evidence

  that scientists or health officials were involved in the research that started or spread Covid back and so.

  That's why you have experts saying that this is all part of a broader undermining of science and scientists in the United States and criminal prosecution of scientists is a classic authoritarian tactic.

• National Debt Hits Record $40 Trillion

  then the last thing I'll mention for you today is that our national debt just hit a record high of $40 trillion now, months earlier than experts But apparently Trump's tariffs didn't help.

  And we were already looking at spending $2 trillion more than we were expecting to make it this but then when the Supreme Court shot those tariffs down, they put another $250 billion debt into our expected revenue of the

  and then on top of that, you have all the strains from the military spending with the war in Iran and then all the effects of said war.

  along with things like Social Security, Medicare and interest rates from the debt itself. it genuinely feels crazy.

  We just hit another record of 39 trillion just back in and five months before that, we were at 38 but then at the same time, you've got the Trump White House saying they've been,

  focused on slashing waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending while accelerating economic growth to get America's debt to GDP ratio trending in the right there

  you know, while they say they're trying to figure all that out, all of this is trickling down to average Americans with things like groceries, gas and mortgage and car loans going up while wages are going so.

  That's why you have experts saying if we want to improve our living standards, now is the time for lawmakers to put our nation on a more affordable and sustainable but at least as it stands now, the debts just rising, with estimates saying that we'll be at 41.1 trillion.

  Our current statutory debt limit by as early as this so you have experts also saying our current fiscal trajectory is plainly unsustainable AI disruption or recession, global war.

  Any number of other events could quickly push us over the edge from a challenge into a full blown crisis.

  so, you know, fun times but that my friends, you beautiful bastards, is the end of your Thursday I'll leave you with two One, I might actually have a special bonus video for you tomorrow.

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