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.
The only way to outlaw Meta’s dangerous and egregious behavior is to pass legislation
Or we could just exercise existing legislation? Like perjury?
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.
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.
It’s 2026. Anyone that still actively uses Facebook is a moron despite whatever reason they have for using it.
