Submitted 1 day ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://techoversight.org/2026/02/18/report-zuckerberg-lied-congress/
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?
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 citronellal one to increase engagement. That is an editorial decision that should be liable for.
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.
Or, crazy idea, how about not using their products?
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.
If the USA had a functioning Justice Department, lying to Congress should have put the Zuck behind bars.
It’s 2026. Anyone that still actively uses Facebook is a moron despite whatever reason they have for using it.
Behind the bastards podcast had enough material on him for three episodes. Mark is a bad dude.
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.
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! insidejob.fandom.com/wiki/Reptoids#Members
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.
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
What an interesting organization: www.influencewatch.org/…/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.
It’s always the fucking money in the end. Paid for that doomsday bunker in Hawaii.
Like it’s the first time. Bravo USA.
We’re living in post-truth times. Zuck is a large part of the reason why.
Dunno if that’ll be better, but I created it to see if it helped :)
The only thing you can do to punish this fuck is by not using any of his current and future spyware.
It is unwise to trust the words of anyone with something to lose.
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
Or we could just exercise existing legislation? Like perjury?
matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Even 1 year in jail should be a good enough incentive, if only he could not buy his way out.