Social media companies are using machine-learning techniques to make users addicted to their platforms. These systems are designed to be addictive, feeding people more and more extreme content, making them alternately angry and sad.

— Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee: The internet needs compassion – and I have a solution (2025)

Source: https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/internet-social-media-world-wide-web-tim-berners-lee-b1247551.html

Quoted in The Standard, 15 September 2025.

Topics: software design