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Masad: Meta's core social networks are dying assets facing AI disruption
“Meta has this asset that's spitting out a ton of cash. Which is Instagram, Facebook, their ads, kind of networks. But it's in a way a dying asset in many ways. It's a very competitive at some point it's going to get fully disrupted. AI is going in. It's alread…”
Sexton: Instagram functions as an infidelity generating machine
“If we were going to invent an infidelity generating machine, it would be called Instagram.”
Dr. Moore: Instagram banned me for sharing semaglutide COVID-19 data
“When I started talking about the data that I found from 20 21 on the protective mechanism of semaclutide against COVID, I got deplatformed at 232,000 off Instagram.”
Roll: Social media advice to abruptly quit your job is irresponsible
“That truth makes it all the more problematic or pernicious when you scroll on Instagram or TikTok and you see all these people talking about like, you know, quit your job and reinvent, you know, like if you're not happy, then you owe it to yourself to leave. L…”
Sanchez: Twitter survey found only two multimillionaires who stayed in hometowns
“We did this study, and we surveyed thousands of people on Twitter and on Instagram, and we ask, have any of you Never left your hometown for college, work, anything, for longer than six months and become very monetarily successful. Define monetarily successful…”
Zahrai: LinkedIn audiences seek growth while Instagram users primarily seek entertainment
“The audience on LinkedIn, yeah, they are thirsty to grow. People on Instagram kind of want to be entertained and like maybe educated a little bit.”
Malik: Doctors discussing sex scientifically get shadowbanned on social media
“And it's like people talking about sex from a scientific background, and all of us, like sex therapists, doctors, like who talk about sex, we all get shadow banned.”
Dial: I deleted social media from my phone despite having 600,000 followers
“I don't have any social media on my phone anymore because I noticed that I would pick it up and I'd immediately just somehow be on Instagram. Like it was a reactionary thing. And so for the past six months, like I haven't had Instagram on my phone. And so I ha…”
TikTok reached 1.6 billion users in 2024, triple the size of X
“TikTok goes from zero users to 1.6 billion by 20 24. And oh, by the way, that's like three X Twitter and Snapchat and almost the same as Instagram, slightly less. However, it is the fastest growing social channel ever with 10 X the growth trajectory.”