New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed S4505, a law that requires websites to display warnings claiming that features like algorithmic feeds, push notifications, infinite scroll, like counts, and autoplay cause addiction – despite, as TechDirt argues, the absence of scientific consensus supporting such claims.
This kind of pseudo-science is very popular. People really thinking there’s substantial scientific evidence that “social media” is “bad”. Literally making this false belief into a law.
edit: Lots of downvotes. Zero reliable studies posted. I understand that this pseudo-science confirms your pre-concieved biases but that doesn’t make it scientific. Y’all are yearning for the worst people to have even more power to control criticism and news about capitalism, imperialism, genocide, etc.
edit2: TikTok.
If you think Social media isn’t “bad”, you’re a fucking imbecile.