> Also I would like an example of something a social media company does that you wouldn't be able to get approval to do on animals.

One possible example is the emotion manipulation study Facebook did over a decade ago[0]. I don't know how you would perform an experiment like this on animals, but Facebook has demonstrated a desire to understand all the different ways its platform can be used to alter user behavior and emotions.

0: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/06/30/32...