Mark Zuckerberg says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media and teen mental health

www.theverge.com Mark Zuckerberg says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media and teen mental health

US lawmakers think otherwise.

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didn't tobacco companies once refute a causal connection between smoking and lung cancer?

what else is he going to say? that he knows he's profiting from pouring poisonous sludge into all our lives?
- And, even though Big Tobacco was obviously lying, they sewed enough doubt to keep the topic as an issue of debate for decades after we knew it was dangerous.
  
  Zuck is likely doing the same because it works.
  
  Oil companies too. Honestly, the tobacco industries bullshit is pretty foundational to any communications studies.
  
  It's something we should all keep in mind when whenever we are subject to corporate communications/public relations.
- Worse. They had these big, decades-long gaslighting campaigns, selling cigarettes as "good for you" because they "calm" you down, make you look cool and lower your blood pressure, etc.
Even if he was right, his word can't be taken seriously because of his position. He's never going to admit his product is actually detrimental.
Tobacco exec: it's not cancerous

Oil exec: lead additives are safe

Social media exec: no harm to your kids psychology
- Sonic Team exec: we won't make you a furry
  
  Shit, what did I miss?
ditching facebook sure improved my mental health. wasting time is one thing, but wasting it on infuriating bullshit is just fucking stupid
- FBM is the only reason it’s still alive.
  
  And events. I use it to follow a bunch of places that have musical events or drinking contests. But I don't have a single friend, and I only check it once a week or so to see what's coming up.
Mark Zuckerberg is the stereotypical CEO: lying, ignorant, and indifferent about the wellbeing of humans, as long as it generates profits.
Lol everyone knows there is, even the kids
"Wolf says there's 'no causal connection' between him being there and a declining sheep population."
True. There's a pretty direct connection.
- That would be what causal means mate.
  
  Not in the English world it doesn't, mate.
~~Mark Zuckerberg~~ The Tobacco Industry says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between ~~social media~~ Smoking and teen ~~mental~~ respiratory health.

There...fixed it.
Yeah because it's more than a casual connection
Best joke of the day.
The collapse of society and its ensuing extermination of his kind is gonna be cool.
He's right, there's no "casual" connection. In fact, it's a definite connection.
- Causal
Emotionless Android in human skin cites results of programming sub-routine to conclude state of human mental wellbeing.
He is the right one who ought to tell us! /s
And the oil industry said to the world for decades that pollution wouldn't cause climate change. Yet here we are.
I haven't seen anything that indicates there is, so he's not wrong.

While there's links between depression and social media use, I haven't seen anything causal determined.

It could be the other way around, that people are more likely to use social media when feeling depressed.

It's very difficult to prove if a correlation is causal.
- Concerns surrounding the impact of social media on teen mental health heightened following the release of the Facebook Papers in 2021, which revealed internal documents suggesting Meta was aware of the negative impact Instagram had on some teens.
  
  Per the article, not only is he wrong, but he's knowingly wrong thanks to inside company research concluding the contrary.
  
  Knowingly wrong
  
  Also colloquially known as lying.
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