• @ohwhatfollyisman
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    713 months ago

    didn’t tobacco companies once refute a causal connection between smoking and lung cancer?

    what else is he going to say? that he knows he’s profiting from pouring poisonous sludge into all our lives?

    • trevor
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      113 months ago

      And, even though Big Tobacco was obviously lying, they sewed enough doubt to keep the topic as an issue of debate for decades after we knew it was dangerous.

      Zuck is likely doing the same because it works.

      • @BeMoreCareful
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        43 months ago

        Oil companies too. Honestly, the tobacco industries bullshit is pretty foundational to any communications studies.

        It’s something we should all keep in mind when whenever we are subject to corporate communications/public relations.

    • @PrimeMinisterKeyes
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      33 months ago

      Worse. They had these big, decades-long gaslighting campaigns, selling cigarettes as “good for you” because they “calm” you down, make you look cool and lower your blood pressure, etc.

  • MagnyusG
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    Even if he was right, his word can’t be taken seriously because of his position. He’s never going to admit his product is actually detrimental.

  • @whotookkarl
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    463 months ago

    Tobacco exec: it’s not cancerous

    Oil exec: lead additives are safe

    Social media exec: no harm to your kids psychology

    • nolannice
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      133 months ago

      Sonic Team exec: we won’t make you a furry

  • @[email protected]
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    363 months ago

    ditching facebook sure improved my mental health. wasting time is one thing, but wasting it on infuriating bullshit is just fucking stupid

      • @TexasDrunk
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        23 months ago

        And events. I use it to follow a bunch of places that have musical events or drinking contests. But I don’t have a single friend, and I only check it once a week or so to see what’s coming up.

  • @[email protected]
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    193 months ago

    Mark Zuckerberg is the stereotypical CEO: lying, ignorant, and indifferent about the wellbeing of humans, as long as it generates profits.

  • @De_Narm
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    173 months ago

    “Wolf says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between him being there and a declining sheep population.”

  • Hemingways_Shotgun
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    Mark Zuckerberg The Tobacco Industry says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media Smoking and teen mental respiratory health.

    There…fixed it.

    • @JigglySackles
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      83 months ago

      Causal, not casual. Same sentiment though, there is a proven link and of course he doesn’t think that’s a problem because he sells the problem.

  • @[email protected]
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    73 months ago

    I’ve read dozens upon dozens of claims that social media was harmful, and always dismissed them as Karen nonsense, “think of the children” bullshit, or “kids these days” boomer ignorance.

    Today, for the first time, I have started to believe there might actually be some truth to the idea.

  • @uebquauntbez
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    63 months ago

    He is the right one who ought to tell us! /s

  • AtomicHotSauce
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    63 months ago

    The collapse of society and its ensuing extermination of his kind is gonna be cool.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      I would love to believe that, but instead I can’t help but believe a collapse of society would just put these people in an even higher level of control. They have the most starting resources, so they’ll have an advantage starting over, and with no rules or restrictions, it will be bad for everyone else.