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Yes it is. Infinite scrolling triggers a dopamine response in users, keeping them wanting more. Its sole purpose is to keep you engaged in the app.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/automatic-you/201208...

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The source of the mental health issues caused by social media is toxicity, competition for status, and false perceptions of how good other people's lives are. I don't believe stopping people from seeing more by clicking a continue button is going to help with the core issue.

Infinite scrolling is designed to keep you in the app, looking at more of the content that is going to cause "toxicity, competition for status, and false perceptions of how good other people's lives are". I recognize that these are all major issues that need to be addressed and that this bill doesn't do that as well as we'd like, but one of many other ways we CAN address that is by preventing users from addictively subjecting themselves to more of that content.

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