Is social media having its tobacco moment | FT #shorts
Financial Times·2026-04-07 23:18

It wasn't whether the the content was particularly bad. Um, but it's whether by design these platforms are meant to get you get you coming back just like a I guess a slot machine in a casino. >> And like this stuff all matters to to markets, doesn't it, Rob.Because these companies are like almost unbelievably enormous. So Meta is a $1.36% trillion company and and Google or Alphabet that's like $3.3% trillion worth of market capitalization. So you put them together and that is 8% of the entire S&P 500 US sto ...

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