“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial | A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/tiktok-settles-hours-before-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-starts/
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Let it happen, cannot wait to see Zuck burn, such a disgrace on legs.
I mean… yeah? Anyone who’s used IG for more than 5 mins knows it’s basically engineered to keep you scrolling til your brain shuts off. Wild that it took a trial to say it out loud.
All social media platforms including this one are drugs
Oh, does bribery not work anymore?
One of my biggest regrets, is not taking the steps to get my senior these published when I finished it in 1996 “An exploratory study of internet addiction”‘… I would have been cited repeatedly…
(and yes, someone used that same title just 2 years later. I wonder if I went to school with them.)
They literally hire psychologists to make it more addictive and to increase time spent in the app.
You don’t need more proof than that.
You think that, let’s wait to see what an appeal to the Supreme Court has to say.
Lol what? Zuck just went tot he Premiere of Melania at the white house. This admin is not going to mess the Fascist Supporting Social Media Engine
My mental health is so much better after I rid of Facebook
please god please let them lose or whatever will change it for the better
How many times I end up on instagram after picking up my phone to do something non-instagram related
So they’ll be fined a whole 1% of their annual revenue. Won’t somebody please think of the billionaires!?
Trust bust the fuck outa these tech bros.
There was a time before social media.
There will be a time after.
To all things there must come an end. To everything, turn, turn, turn. There is a season, turn, turn, turn. A time to be born. A time to die
Switch to Pixelfeld.
I have always simply wanted to share my photographs and Zuckerborg took the app and turned it into an absolute shit stream.
Huh, maybe incorporation language that only allows the android fuckboy to be removed as CEO, by his own volition, was a bad idea? Literally the only public company that requires unanimous agreement by the board to remove the CEO.
Good riddance to this man and his evils
On no… a companies that is ruining the entire human population’s mental health might lose money?
You know whos going to make sure they dont lose in court? The corrupt judges.
Delete Instragram
tobacco 2.0
Bring back time based feeds of people I actually follow.
Deleted IG 2 weeks ago. Already reading more and better concentration.
A loss in the ultra corrupt and capitalistic USA?, yeah right.
It is not their drugs!
People are hooked on their own drugs, dopamine. And the strokes on their ego.
The tech bros are just the ones streamlining the use and cheering it on.
They’re not gonna do jack shit. They’ll continue to destroy this country before they attempt to change things.
Sometimes I feel like reddit is addictive, then I get banned on a sub for shit posting then my opinion changes.