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> Zuck is an outright liar. There are now mountains of exceptionally good research showing a solid causal link between social media use and negative mental health impacts on young people (no, I will not google that for you, please do your own homework).

what is the point of the statement if you call someone a liar, claim that there exists material to prove the lie and then say, that you will not link to this material?.




Intellectual curiosity (as per our guidelines)

I'd like you to show some too.

Obviously you won't be able to refute what I said, because there are no papers out there that show there isn't a causal link between social media use and harms to mental health. That would be asking the impossible. But there is a massive and no longer ignorable body of work out there saying indeed there are direct causal links between social media use and mental harms. And Zuck just pretended that doesn't exist.

You know, I was actually hoping someone smarter and with more time than me would come back with something I'd missed.

Mark Zuckerberg stood up in front of a room full of grieving mothers and gave a limp, fake apology that made them burst into tears. His sheer lack of humanity and emotional disconnect with other humans could hardly be clearer.

  """
  "The existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link
   between using social media and young people having worse mental
   health," Zuckerberg told the crowded room.

   Lori Schott, a bereaved mother from Colorado, said she cried when
   she heard Zuckerberg’s comments.
   """
Those mums showed up to the hearing with photos of their dead kids who had killed themselves as a direct result of using social media.

My point is less emotional. Given the preponderance of evidence against Zickerbergs comments, he lied.

So, above I said that means Mark Zuckerberg just lied to congress and that makes him a criminal in the US right? Whether under oath or not.

That's why I was downvoted. Nothing to do with encouraging you to do a simple search, which you could have done in the time it took you to write a snarky reply.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/01/parents-tech-c...




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