They'll say everything and exploit anyone for their numbers.

Philip Morris: 1 pack of cigarettes per day is not addiction.

What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?

I child a day is not a pedophile.

A child a day keeps the Attorney General away!

Post headline deserves a downvote. Quote from article:

Lanier asked Mosseri what he thought of K.G.M's longest single day of use of Instagram being 16 hours.

"That sounds like problematic use," the Instagram boss answered. He did not call it an addiction.

He also didn’t say it was a tomato. Like wtf do you want, I can’t tell if he was asked specifically if 16 hours a day was an addiction. The prior question was about whether he had known she had a 16hr day, and he had not. (He should have; poor trial prep.)

This is sensationalist BS and I dearly want this platform to be better than that.

Just so we’re clear, Meta can die in a fire and the world would be better off, I’m not defending them in the slightest.

you are good

idk but the fact that people do that is sad as fuck

He's right, it's whatever we call the next stage up from addiction.

Oh, fuck this article. He didn't say it wasn't . He just didn't even mention the word at all.

When I read Instagram boss:

Doom scroll

My ex was super depressed. Long story short she was struggling with sexuality. I watched her spend literal hours on the couch scrolling insta. She got deep into Reels and would watch them all day. The algorithm is so addicting. It kept her eyes glued. She also ended up down the self diagnosed rabbit hole deciding she had all sorts of mental illness. It was awful.

Punching that guy in the face is not violence either, you know? /s

Something something defending the billionaires! /s

I just dislike sensationalism.

If the truth isn’t enough, then I don’t want it.

The entire line of questioning was about addiction and the CEO was pretending it wasn't (he didn't want up admit the truth because his company would be liable). The headline was accurate and your take is officially a hot one.

You dislike the truth. You should watch Tobacco CEOs deny that cigarettes were an addiction.

https://youtu.be/A6B1q22R438

Why do ppl spend hours on slot machines in bars and casinos? What are they doing during all those hours?

FB, IG, TikTok, Candy Crush etc. are all using those exact same techniques to get you hooked like junkies.

It’s literally a crime a against humanity.

"That's not addiction. They can log off anytime. Bro, it's called commitment."

The title is accurate.

He was asked if it was an addiction, and he repeatedly used technicalities and weaseley language to refuse to admit it.

"It's important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problematic use," [Instagram head Adam Mosseri] added.

"I'm sure I've said that I've been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don't think it's the same thing as clinical addiction."

Yet, Mosseri repeatedly said he was not an expert in addiction in response to Lanier's questioning.

First stage: denial.

What a smug stupid fucking lying face on this piece of shit.... He thinks he's fucking being cute with his little glasses and eyebrows feinting surprise

That lede photo is the very fucking epitome of the Upton Sinclair's "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it"

He is being paid hundreds of millions of dollars to pretend to be ignorant, to blatantly lie to people, while looking them straight in the eye. More money than you or me will ever see in all our combined lifetimes, to make that stupid fucking face

If this Instagram guy was as dodgy about defining pedophilia as he was about defining addiction, everybody here would have no trouble identifying him as a pedophile protector

What's the deal with tech bosses obviously lying lately? Just a legal thing? Or a it's true if we say it long enough thing?

He just didn't even mention the word at all.

Did we read the same article? You can literally search for where he uses the word.

Hopefully Analog returns to Lemmy in far less than 12 days, and heavily edits their comments to reflect their error

I only have an Instagram account to follow when special beers are released by a local brewery. That's their only method of communication, which is annoying.

I have found myself on IG watching skateboarding or cliff diving videos for 15 or 20 minutes before catching myself. It's crazy how addicting it can be. I'm not doom scrolling or even researching a hobby I often do. I just find those videos fascinating, and it keeps feeding that to me. I just don't open IG anymore.

"It's important to differentiate between clinical addiction and problematic use," he added.

"I'm sure I've said that I've been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don't think it's the same thing as clinical addiction."

Yeah, I dunno what article that dude read. Or didn't read, apparently.

Such a moral way to run a whole economic philosophy.

The post accurately copies the article's headline without editorialising.

The article itself is shit though.

All I do is play fucking games and even 16 hours of that is absurd unless I'm specifically trying to force my sleep pattern into something usable again.

When the president of the united states is held to zero accountability and no one seems to care. Why would these assholes?

That still sounds misleading. He was not speaking for 16 hours of use which is what the headline suggests. As other has stated, I hope those companies crumble but I think honesty is important, not sensationalization.

They are the exact same type of assholes

I fear for the future of reading comprehension. Before the portion Analog quotes, the article gives people multiple paragraphs of context to understand addiction as what is being talked about. I don't expect the word to be wedged into every sentence about the same topic. Meta's Adam Mosseri was clearly doing everything in his playbook to not use the word "addiction" in a sentence.

And Adam Mosseri knew better. We know he's been confronted with evidence of addiction but doesn't want to listen.

But I do find it much more concerning that Analog appointed himself judge of bad articles, then either accidentally or intentionally omitted the preceding paragraphs that I had to quote for him.

Bro I spend 4 hours a day gaming and I feel guilty enough to fuck over my sleep schedule and get some chores done. 16 hours????

He is not qualified to identify what is and isn't addiction. He is qualified to demonstrate he's a psychopath.

I recommend imginn for checking instagram via a browser. I use it for basically the same reason, checking on local businesses.

Yeah, that was some serious ninja editing.

I fear for the future of reading comprehension

I fear for it currently if you think it's okay to make up things people said and put it in a headline.

You can set limits with warnings. It’s super helpful. I get a warning if I’ve spent more than 15 minutes a day on it. It actually cuts me off after 30.

I just don't use it anymore. Saves me money on beer. I opened it up last week for the first time in 2 months to see if Pliny the Younger was on tap at a local bar.

Do better, BBC.

Why does he look like Steve Carrell playing a sociopathic big tech asshole?

You can trust ol empty eyes there. He knows what he is lying.

Yeah and you probably think headlines that say "suspect dead after ICE-involved incident" is fine and that "ICE performs summary execution of innocent person" is sensationalism.

@RemindMe@feddit.org about correcting misinformation in 24 hours

Greatest accomplishment of my life was quitting cigarettes.

Congrats!

Thought it was the Verizon guy.