Re:Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at lan...
by shermantanktop on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:55AM
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It’s simpler than that. Engagement increases are the perpetual goal. The vector is constant. Relative motion is all that matters.
Nobody would talk about whether the product is now “addictive” because that suggests crossing a finish line to completion, and we can’t ever be done.
Google and Meta are surely more open than a classified missile project. So it would really be beyond the pale for someone to not realize that what they are working on is an additive platform, sure I am willing to bet they didn't say "Addictive" and instead cleaned it up in tidy corporate product management lingo, "highly engaged users" or something like that. But its just impossible.