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“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial (arstechnica.com)
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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Great and I am not interested in being subjected to a moral panic that feels like the logic was laid out by grifters trying to distract from their grift by manipulating gullible idiots to empower them even more.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

100%. Haven't these people been watching what happened to TikTok?

Or are they in denial because they were just as rabid about attacking TikTok?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Moral panics are an invitation to be stupider and more righteous and people love the simple feeling of velocity that comes from accepting that invitation.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good, take your L and leave lol

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Leave here? Why? This place is being built by people who see potential in social media, not people who are stuck in a cynical moral panic that was deployed to distract them from identifying right wing billionaires and the brutal collapse of social safety nets as the drivers of suffering in their lives.