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https://news.yahoo.com/nancy-pelosi-wonders-top-facebook-165642885.htmlNancy Pelosi wonders how top Facebook employees can 'look themselves in the mirror' because they 'make money off poison'
ahartmans@businessinsider.com (Avery Hartmans), Business Insider September 21, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted Facebook executives and employees as "totally disreputable" over the prevalence of posts touting the right-wing conspiracy movement QAnon.
Pelosi made these comments in an interview with Kara Swisher on the first episode of Swisher's new podcast with The New York Times, called "Sway," which premiered Monday. During the course of the interview, Swisher brought up QAnon, the far-right conspiracy movement popular among some of President Donald Trump's supporters that claims a group of society's elite, including leaders in the Democratic party, are conspiring to commit a variety of heinous crimes, including child sex trafficking.
Swisher asked Pelosi how much she holds Facebook accountable for QAnon content appearing on the site, to which Pelosi responded, "I hold them very accountable."
Pelosi also blamed Facebook for its role in the 2016 election, another time the company came under fire for insufficient moderation ahead of an election. Special counsel Robert Mueller found that Russian operatives significantly used Facebook in its campaign to interfere with the election.
"In 2016, when the Russians interfered in our election and rubles were coming in and they had to know that these were not on the level of American sites, they said, well, we never thought to look at that. So they played that role in that election," Pelosi said.
"I don't know how the Facebook board of directors or their top employees can look themselves in the mirror," she continued. "They have clearly chosen. Their business plan is to make money off of poison, and that's the path they have chosen to go."
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Nancy Pelosi wonders how top Facebook employees can 'look themselves in the mirror' (Original Post)
dalton99a
Sep 2020
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Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)1. K&R
empedocles
(15,751 posts)2. A warning shot, given Moscow mark, can't count on a trump win.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)3. They're not looking in the mirror. They're looking at their bank accounts.
They're looking at how popular they are and how many billions of people are using their platform. They're looking at the power that translates into.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)4. Zuckerberg thinks it's less likely that Facebook will be broken up into pieces
if Republicans control the WH and Senate. Just my guess.
Can Facebook be broken up? What you need to know
Critics want Instagram and WhatsApp to split from Facebook. We examine how that might happen.
Facebook has pushed back, arguing that breaking up the company wouldn't hold the social network more accountable for its actions. Instead, Facebook has called for more internet regulation around harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.
"Accountability of tech companies can only be achieved through the painstaking introduction of new rules for the internet," Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications, said in a statement Thursday. The social network also said that having Instagram and WhatsApp under Facebook helps them fight spam, election meddling and crime. Facebook says it has plenty of competition, pointing to YouTube, Snapchat, iMessage and WeChat, among others.
"Accountability of tech companies can only be achieved through the painstaking introduction of new rules for the internet," Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications, said in a statement Thursday. The social network also said that having Instagram and WhatsApp under Facebook helps them fight spam, election meddling and crime. Facebook says it has plenty of competition, pointing to YouTube, Snapchat, iMessage and WeChat, among others.
https://www.cnet.com/news/can-facebook-be-broken-up-what-you-need-to-know/