Not to mention their content recommendation algorithms will specifically push more of this “content” to these people, heightening the problem immensely
Bigger than the catholic church?
Wholly See
Someone at Meta is panickly deleting server logs and emails right now.
But on a more serious note. While it is true that child trafficking and exploitation do happen on Meta’s platforms and that I also agree that they do very little, next to nothing, to stop it, borderline accidentally facilitate it. On the other hand, this is just another “won’t you think of the children” political attempt to destroy net neutrality. They intentionally include and argue a point from a Title that is part of the Telecommunications act. Which granted, is outdated and it did threw us into this hell dystopia of corporate domination that is the Internet today. But this is just an attempt to legislate via courts. They probably don’t give a fuck about protecting any children but are instead attempting to exert political control over the internet. Another Democrat fulfilling the Republican agenda for them.
It would be a simple answer to legislate Facebook into actually modding their site for this content.
But they literally cannot moderate their platform. The amount of data that Facebook sees every minute would bankrupt any company if they had to actually hire enough people to go through all that content and determine which is fine and which isn’t. And that isn’t even taking into consideration the mental and emotional damage that a person will go through just seeing all the vile and despicable shit that gets posted. AI moderation isn’t advanced enough and the human moderation cost is so great that the giant social media companies will pretty much never be able to self moderate. Reddit was only able to moderate itself (to an extent) because they had an endless supply of free mods. Facebook doesn’t have that same luxury.
Sounds like they should be bankrupt then
Why pay $5 million to pay 100 mods $50k/year when you can just pay a few hundred thousand in fines while you let the government move the walls of your garden for you.
I guess. But they could do a better job with user reported content which they very much don’t.
That’s what externalization looks like. In the fossil fuel industry, it’s creating polluting products without having to bear the costs. In chemical companies, it’s physically polluting the environment. Same with mining companies, etc.
In social media, it is a refusal to manage content in a responsible manner, whether it’s CSAM or disinformation campaigns or hate speech. That externalization is what allows them to pay the salaries that they do, and invest in r&d, and increase their stock values to ridiculous levels. Meta is a trillion dollar company and it needs to rebalance its priorities.
“Duh…” says everyone that’s ever been on Facebook.
Have you seen some of the accounts on Instagram? They’re not even trying to hide it.
im sure zucker the fucker is preparing his wrists for the gentlest of slaps
The golden wrists of political grandstanding
All I heard was “republicans”
