Are Tech Companies Like Cigarette Companies in Their Disinformation Tactics?

Addiction Economy Thought for Today - are tech companies really like cigarette companies in their approach to lies, disinformation and undermining policy about the addictiveness and harms of their products?

Looking for evidence for this for our case study on Social Media and Addiction - please do share if you have examples, or feel they are being unfairly maligned.

Couldn't resist putting together this montage for Joe and I's presentation yesterday at Tony Curzon Price's seminar on Addiction and Cyberspace for his initiative Humanity in Cyberspace. It got a definite laugh!

Humanity in Cyberspace here:
https://lnkd.in/eMTT2XCx

For younger readers, the pic on the left is of Cigarette CEO's in April 1994 testifying to vowing to Congress that their product is not addictive, despite knowing that it was. As here in the New Scientist:

https://lnkd.in/eXgfGSW3

You probably recognise at least Mark Zuckerberg in the other pic!

(Slides and recording of that presentation coming next week).