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

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

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.

What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?

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?

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.

All CEOs of the big ones are sociopaths. It's by design.

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

"Its not an addiction, I'm not addicted snorts line off a toilet seat I'M PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL"

A system that benefits people who lie about objective facts should be destroyed.

If the tactical business decision is to look someone in the face and say "spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours, idly gazing at photos of anything is not an addiction" in order to protect business interests, then things are wrong. Addiction to a product should be met with horror! Oh no, how could this happen? Instead, it's part of the business model.

"Business" is a blight.

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????

I child a day is not a pedophile.

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

Guys you heard it here first: You can drink alcohol for 16 hours everyday and it's not addiction.

This has to be rage bait. I feel like the less time I'm on there, the happier I am. Even the 30 minutes daily limit that I usually set for apps like that is time I'm never getting back.

The only reason I have an account to begin with is because I'm a photographer (even if just a hobbyist) and I like to have some presence in the circles I'm in. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be there at all.

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

They want to be an integral part of our lives, like thinking, except they'll take the place of thinking, or talking, or even looking around.

Punchable face.

I dunno. I found it pretty addicting when I was holding both a vape and my phone, and I had doomscrolled for 9 hours till the battery died without having hit my vape once

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

Coming from a potential cocaine sniffing addict that’s not surprising

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

Of all my active addictions, none take 16 hours to satiate.