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> Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, has been sued over the 2020 killing of a federal security guard, a move that aims to challenge a federal statute th
by Hokusai 5y ago
> Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, has been sued over the 2020 killing of a federal security guard, a move that aims to challenge a federal statute that shields websites and social media platforms from liability for what users post
Even if Facebook is not responsible for what users post, they are still totally responsible for what content they promote.
If Facebook wants to just share used content they need to go back to a time ordered feed, what they are currently doing is to promote hate to get more engagement.
- CapitalistCartr 5y agoI was thinking this lawsuit seemed a stretch, but this is an interesting view of how Facebook was active in what happened. More broadly, they use an automated algorithm. All of the Silicon Valley darlings rely on them. Being held accountable for the consequences of those algorithms would be a sea change.