Facebook is addictive and ought be regulated like a cigarette company: Salesforce CEO

Facebook is addictive and ought be regulated like a cigarette company: Salesforce CEO

"I think which you do it exactly the same way which you regulated the cigarette industry. They're addictive. You know, they're not perfect for you...There's a lot of parallels," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told CBNC's Squawk Alley. In November, Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, told in an interview with Axios which he and other executives were guilty of creating a "social-validation feedback loop" to make Facebook psychologically addictive. Early Facebook executive and previous vice president of growth, Chamath Palihapitiya, too accused Facebook of creating "short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops" which are "destroying how community works."

Facebook is addictive and should be regulated like a cigarette company: Salesforce CEO

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Facebook ought be regulated like the cigarette industry

let alone Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells some tech has addictive qualities and ought be regulated. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff may have made his billions selling software, however which does not mean he's giving the tech industry a toll free pass. Benioff: You'd do it exactly the same way you regulated the cigarette industry. They're addictive. Sorkin: Meaning, thinking about it as like a cigarette, in which kind of addictive way?





Facebook is addictive and ought be regulated like a cigarette company: Salesforce CEO

"I think which you do it exactly the same way which you regulated the cigarette industry. They're addictive. You know, they're not perfect for you...There's a lot of parallels," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told CBNC's Squawk Alley. In November, Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, told in an interview with Axios which he and other executives were guilty of creating a "social-validation feedback loop" to make Facebook psychologically addictive. Early Facebook executive and previous vice president of growth, Chamath Palihapitiya, too accused Facebook of creating "short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops" which are "destroying how community works."

Facebook is addictive and should be regulated like a cigarette company: Salesforce CEO

as declared in Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells some tech has addictive qualities and ought be regulated. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff may have made his billions selling software, however which does not mean he's giving the tech industry a toll free pass. Benioff: You'd do it exactly the same way you regulated the cigarette industry. They're addictive. Sorkin: Meaning, thinking about it as like a cigarette, in which kind of addictive way?

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Facebook ought be regulated like the cigarette industry





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