"someone spending more time on Instagram than they feel good about, and that definitely happens."
"not good for the company, over the long run, to make decisions that profit for us but are poor for people's well-being,"
"being careful with my words."
A Los Angeles lawsuit seeks to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children, with Meta and Google's YouTube remaining defendants while TikTok and Snap settled. Instagram differentiated clinical addiction from problematic use, rejecting the classification of social media as a clinical addiction while acknowledging that problematic use—defined as someone spending more time on Instagram than they feel good about—occurs. Prior casual references to "addiction" were acknowledged as imprecise. A personal connection to a case of clinical addiction was cited. Instagram acknowledged that long-term company decisions should not prioritize profit at the expense of users' well-being.
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