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The thing is it is hardly measurable



Not only is it measurable, Facebook measured it.

Years back, they did A/B testing to see if they could make users happy or sad.

Turns out they could. They published a blog post about it.

All subsequent mental harm their platforms do is squarely on them.

They know. They admitted it.

They should be sued out of existence.




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