mr zuckerberg do you believe your product can be addictive uh senator i we certainly do not design the product uh in that way we design the product to be as useful and meaningful that's not my question my question is there seems to be an ample body of growing medical evidence that social media sites have an addictive nature to them do you agree with that senator i don't think the research has been conclusive but it is an area that we care about and and study we certainly do not want our products to be addictive we want
people to use them because they are meaningful and we we take steps to make sure that this is the case so for example um you know we don't give the team that's running newsfeed a goal around how much time people spend on our products uh which goes counter to a lot of the the memes and misinformation out there around how we operate but my goal is to help people connect and find content and interactions that are going to be meaningful to them on our service and our view is that if if that's what we deliver
over the long term and people find the services useful then they'll use them more but i i don't think that companies should be optimizing to just encourage people to spend as much time as possible on them well time's about up uh have you seen the movie social dilemma senator i'm familiar with it okay have you seen it mr dorsey no i have not i would encourage both of you to see it so here's what i think we're going to do on the committee over time i hope is to ask the question more directly are these
social media sites addictive do they have a public health component that needs to be addressed for years we thought tobacco was a great thing we found out tobacco is not such a great thing the medical science around these websites are becoming very concerning to me particularly among children and that you can manipulate how many times you watch and you can set these media sites up so that people will constantly interact so to both of you i appreciate coming for the committee we've got a long way to go i don't think the government needs to regulate
what we think or what we say but we've got to up our game here and i'll end with this last question do both of you support change to 230 reform of section 230 senator i do mr dorsey yes thank you
