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.
Behind the bastards podcast had enough material on him for three episodes. Mark is a bad dude.
meta is the AOL coaster of 2020s
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.
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.
What an interesting organization: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tech-oversight-project/
It would have been so easy for influencewatch to write that in a neutral way, but they couldn’t help themselves from editorializing their very clear opinions into it, almost to the extent that it reads like an industry shill managed to get some edits in.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody just lies to congress now.
congress lies to congress. it amazes me they constantly fold to arcane parliamentary rules that nobody understands.
To, in, and about.
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 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.
They invited the target in, and realigned the cameras accordingly.
You have to let the algorithm decide how you should be creeping. Shh, sleep now, and scroll, and click.
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.
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.
If the USA had a functioning Justice Department, lying to Congress should have put the Zuck behind bars.
It’s always the fucking money in the end. Paid for that doomsday bunker in Hawaii.
