Social-Media-Sucht: Facebook-Whistleblower sagt, Big Tech kenne das Problem seit Jahren und ignoriere es
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/19/social_media
Social-Media-Sucht: Facebook-Whistleblower sagt, Big Tech kenne das Problem seit Jahren und ignoriere es
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/19/social_media
19 Kommentare
They didn’t ignore it. They spent millions on research and development to specifically make it as addicting as possible.
This needed whistleblowing?
Ignored? Haha they hired people to make it more addicting!
It’s not a problem to them it’s a business opportunity
„Problem“. It’s the business model.
You’re the product, you’re the biometric data set, you’re exploited and manipulated, and you’re a moneybag. I dumped FB in 2009 after it became clear it’s a tricky little surveillance machine design to extract information and toy with you. A relative of Zuckerberg admitted to not understanding personal settings or how deep they go so her personal stuff was always getting posted or leaked.
All social media giants know you, even if you’re not a user of their platform. Extremely well. Because you’re the one that trained it to trick you.
This will just create more ID laws like the ones Reddit hates so much. Maybe parents should regulate what their kids are doing on the internet.
This is so stupid. Of course they make it addictive. That’s why we buy anything. Because we like it more
„Problem“ — *Nope.*
„Design imperative and engineered end-goal“ — **Absolutely.**
And you thought the prescription opioid addictions problem was bad.
Fuck Metaface. Fuck Zuckerbot
It’s literally baked into the design, their entire goal is to “keep you engaged” (aka get you addicted).
There is no social media addiction. There is absence of base unconditional income.
The law of physics in our universe are so miserable that you can’t even consistently predict and reproduce the tomorrow, furthermore most human mistakes in our universe are irreversible due to second law of thermodynamics.
Social media is the best ever invention humankind made.
Give me $10000 monthly, indexed against inflation, base unconditional income, and I will never touch my phone, computer, and also : drugs, etc etc
There is no addiction at all there is bad design of the universe and bad design of the society.
Next headline: fast food designed to taste good.
# I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT TO!
This has been known about for four years.
The Social Dilemma explained all of this – word for word. From the mouths of the people that designed these apps and websites. Going back to before even 2019. There was verifiable connection & correlation from kids on social media and DRAMATICALLY increased suicide rates in teens and even pre-teens.
But I guess everyone just said, „Well, what can we do?“
They don’t view is as a problem. They view it as the solution to low engagement.
Same can be said about the people using it
It’s like their entire business model. Why would they do something about it?