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“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial (arstechnica.com)
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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

just saying billionaires manipulating shit has been the norm for ages, which is why we used to have media-ownership limits...repealed under Clinton iirc

[–] pipi1234@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Agreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn't manipulate things at all before.