
The Problem With Comparing Social Media to Big Tobacco
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The Urgency of Regulating or Legislative Intervention
The question of regulatory or legislative intervention has been much more urgent and frequently asked in the last couple of years since the Facebook files were leaked by Francis Hagen. The most dramatic revelation was this collection of slides presenting internal research that Facebook had done, where teen girls expressly said Instagram makes me feel bad about myself. So there's a pretty big contrast between that and the sort of like decades of studies proving that cigarettes cause cancer.
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