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All three of those points are hyperbolic to the extreme.

Unlike opioids facebook can not kill you if you stop using the service. And addiction rates are still being studied best I can tell. Certainly no leading papers claiming an epidemic [0]

Sources required and likely highly deterministic on how you develop a scale for such ranking

*FB is a publicly traded company with a board, it, by definition is not completely controlled by one person.

I personally am no fan of social media, don't really see the point in most contexts, but a call for government regulation into communication is the wrong step. IMO cults of ignorance, luddites, and anti-intellectualism are the threats to free society not social-networking.

[0]https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=addictiveness+of+social...



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