• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Except the propaganda mostly isn’t what the “social media addiction” folks are worrying about.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      The “social media is a drug” people are interested in using this pseudo-science to promote more of their propaganda and eliminate counter-narratives.

      TikTok? Anybody remember what happened there? Exactly this.

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      2 days ago

      Even people who don’t care about usage of propaganda are affected, since these social media addicted folks have brought up how they are getting more unrelated propaganda content exposed to them even if all they want to see is cats and food recipes as an example.