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.
Everybody just lies to congress now.
Like it’s the first time. Bravo USA.
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 hope somewhere in this, someone points out that you cannot bookmark your friends feed. You can bookmark marketplace, or any other part of the site.
When you do manually navigate to your friends, you get pushed back to the infinite slop feed after almost every action.
They did this deliberately so you can’t use facebook to keep tabs on your friends. You know, like it was originally built for.
It was originally built to creep on college women, so creeping on its users more generally now is just a continuation of exactly what it was built for.
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.
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?
It is unwise to trust the words of anyone with something to lose by speaking truth or something to gain by speaking a lie.
The only way to outlaw Meta’s dangerous and egregious behavior is to pass legislation
Or we could just exercise existing legislation? Like perjury?
All four sections carry a penalty of imprisonment for not more than five years, although § 1001 is punishable by imprisonment for not more than eight years when the offense involves terrorism or one of several federal sex offenses. The same five-year maximum penalty attends the separate crime of conspiracy to commit any of the four substantive offenses.
Even 1 year in jail should be a good enough incentive, if only he could not buy his way out.
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 bar-less chainsaw is entirely too dangerous, doesn’t address any existing needs, and the so-called inventors lied about how many people have gotten hurt by it!
So you’re going to either have them install a bar, which is a time-proven solution, or you’re going to force them to stop selling it, right??
Oh, no. No. No, no, no, no… God no. We’re gonna create a database that lets us predict if you’re going to have an abortion by connecting your fitness data to which ads you look at the longest and cross-referencing your driving habits.
ItIt’s frustrating because it’s possible to attack companies like Facebook while fully endorsing Section 230. That law states that companies aren’t liable for things that users post… Unless they become aware of bad content and choose to ignore it.
And Facebook has shown its hand here. They’ve admitted they have moderation tools, through their pledge to crack down on anti-genocide opinions. They want to have it both ways, but hopefully people see through their BS.
“I don’t know why They ‘trust me. Dumb fucks.” - Zuckerberg once
If the USA had a functioning Justice Department, lying to Congress should have put the Zuck behind bars.
Hold up, you’re telling me Zuckerberg isn’t a good person?
I am shocked that the guy who made a website to fuck college girls is a bad person.
Highly relevant video of what sort of culture Zuck metastasized in at Harvard
Is he considered a good lizard person?
According to the show Inside Job, he is! https://insidejob.fandom.com/wiki/Reptoids#Members
We’re living in post-truth times. Zuck is a large part of the reason why.
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.
The only thing you can do to punish this fuck is by not using any of his current and future spyware.
