It’s important to remember that Meta has hidden behind Section 230 for so long that people like Mark Zuckerberg thought they were bulletproof. Meta’s team of attorneys bet on the fact that these documents would never see the light of day because a product liability case would never make it to trial, and they guessed wrong,” said Sacha Haworth, Executive Director of The Tech Oversight Project. “Never-before-seen documents prove that Zuckerberg lied to Congress. We know that they will lie, bury research, and continue recklessly harming young people until Congress forces them to clean up their act. The only way to outlaw Meta’s dangerous and egregious behavior is to pass legislation, like the Kids Online Safety Act, which will hold their feet to the fire and force them to protect children and teens.
You had an argument until you brought up KOSA. That bill is absolutely brutal and had it passed, this administration would have yet another weapon to clamp down on free speech and terrorize citizens.
This article starts out by observing that Zuckerberg committed enough crimes to be sent to prison under existing law and then argues that the only solution is more laws?
How about we just start making rich people subject to the same set of laws as everyone else?
No. Fuck the KOSA, it’s the equivalent of burning down your house to get rid of a cockroach infestation.
Meta should be liable for their algorithm, no more, no less.
I am curious how you could liable for an algorithym. All advertising and entertainment try and capture marketshare and retain people.
How exactly would you define that as illegal?
I am having a hard time not just saying stupid people do stupid things, but of course that is the definition of a child, so it’s the parents that should be held responsible… For wanting to keep using something?
Dont get me wrong, using a tool to leverage weaknesses of the uneducated and disadvantaged is shitty as can be, but that has always been true.
Education and knowledge that this shit is doing what it is designed to do seems like the only long term solution.
Section 240 protects you from users posts, but not necessarily from promoting them above others algorithmically. You could find them liable for their prioritization choices on the timeline over one that just displays things chronologically. It’s been down time and time again that the display is not a chronological one to increase engagement. That is an editorial decision that should be liable for.
Or, crazy idea, how about not using their products? And maybe a little bit of parenting while we are at it.
Passing laws to save the kids always becomes another way to increase surveillance and harm citizens.
Maybe just fine him 40 billion dollars and put him in prison for lying to congress.
Everybody just lies to congress now.
To, in, and about.
congress lies to congress. it amazes me they constantly fold to arcane parliamentary rules that nobody understands.
Hold up, you’re telling me Zuckerberg isn’t a good person?
Is he considered a good lizard person?
Zuck lies every time he is before congress. As long as he’s not held in contempt and INCARCERATED for lying under oath, who gives a fuck.
I did more skimming than reading of the linked article because I don’t care that much abou tthe topic, but I just want to say: We need more of this journalism. THIS is what journalists should be doing so much more of. Calling out lies and specifically this is a great format for that.
True to a point - the article justifies KOSA as a solution to this. We need a whole lot less of that, and a whole lot more holding power accountable. Both the government and the billionaires.
“I don’t know why They ‘trust me. Dumb fucks.” - Zuckerberg once
meta is the AOL coaster of 2020s
Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.
Pfffffft. Well, he’s not testifying before Congress most of the time, so I’m sure we can trust him then.
I wholeheartedly believe that anyone who’s amassed more than 10 million dollars in this country is doing something unsavory to get it - we shouldn’t blindly trust anything they say about anything. Mark has orders of magnitude more than that; everything he says should be considered a lie until proven true from multiple sources.
It’s 2026. Anyone that still actively uses Facebook is a moron despite whatever reason they have for using it.
What an interesting organization: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tech-oversight-project/
It’s always the fucking money in the end. Paid for that doomsday bunker in Hawaii.
