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.
Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction
Analog@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
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.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
Something something defending the billionaires! /s
Analog@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I just dislike sensationalism.
If the truth isn’t enough, then I don’t want it.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You dislike the truth. You should watch Tobacco CEOs deny that cigarette were an addiction.
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
Hopefully Analog returns to Lemmy in far less than 12 days, and heavily edits their comments to reflect their error
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Yeah and you probably prefer this headline: “suspect dead after ICE-involved incident” instead of “ICE performs summary execution of innocent person.”
luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 day ago
The post accurately copies the article’s headline without editorialising.
The article itself is shit though.
lmmarsano@group.lt 18 hours ago
This is sensationalist BS and I dearly want this platform to be better than that.
This platform loves sensationalism. Same with other platforms.
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
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.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
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.
XLE@piefed.social 23 hours ago
I fear for the future of reading comprehension. 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.
But I do find it much more concerning that Analog appointed himself judge of bad articles, then either accidentally or intentionally omitted these multiple paragraphs.
Ulrich@feddit.org 22 hours ago
I fear for it currently if you think it’s okay to make up things people said and put it in a headline.
lmmarsano@group.lt 17 hours ago
see
Even if a nonexpert claims something is clinical addiction, they’re a nonexpert & their word is meaningless. For a credible statement, they’ll need to admit relevant evidence instead of ask a nonexpert.
Imagine being asked for a medical diagnosis when you’re not a qualified physician. It’s perfectly fair to point out you’re not an expert on the matter & point out your awareness of distinctions between imprecise conventional language & precise, scientific definitions.
No one is obligated to volunteer dubious claims to antagonize themselves on the stand just because you want them to.
XLE@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Pam Bondi, is that you?
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
He’s right. Clinical addiction has nothing to do with how much you do something, it has to do with how much it causes problems in your life. I know everyone on Lemmy is tripping over their own hard ons to kill corporations, but there are people using lemmy 16 hours a day and if laws are passed to fight Internet addiction, they will not specifically target corporations. We all go down together. Just ask the creator of Urban Dead.
mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 1 hour ago
So someone doing Heroin everday is not addicted if it doesn’t cause any problems in life? Clinical Addiction absolutely does have to do with how much you do something (and other factors of course).
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I guess we could chalk it up to bad journalism because the example was purely anecdotal. It‘s frustrating for sure.