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Agreed 100%. I've said this for a while as well. I can see lawsuits too because Social media companies are doing the same as tobacco, making changes to make the product more addictive and they also have the information to show that it is bad for health. I don't know to what level they are suppressing that information, but it seems likely.


We got a glimpse of that in the documentary Social Dilemma.

I expect it is going to get substantially worse. With the power of AI, data mining behavior for attention is going to surpass anything we have likely seen before.




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