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NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court (tech.slashdot.org)
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed S4505, a law that requires websites to display warnings claiming that features like algorithmic feeds, push notifications, infinite scroll, like counts, and autoplay cause addiction -- despite, as TechDirt argues, the absence of scientific consensus supporting such claims.

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[–] Flisty@mstdn.social 1 points 1 week ago

@seraphine alas, I am in the UK. Who knows what's illegal or not here