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Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing' (www.engadget.com)
submitted 19 hours ago by Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 8 points 17 hours ago

They want you to believe that it isn’t a thing but they also know it is a thing and definitely have internal documents and conversations talking about how to get more people addicted.

Fucking hope they die.