Zuckerberg said senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to “censor” content in 2021. “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken,” he wrote to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). “Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” Zuckerberg added.
Meta really needs to be split up, along with Google and Microsoft. Nobody can be allowed to have this much influence on public opinion without it going terribly wrong.
People need to stop using Meta’s products. They can’t survive without users.
Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc. are all Meta.
Worst case scenario I see brewing is that Google gets split up and Meta and Microsoft just buy up their assets.
With Android near the top of the divestment list, that’s a scary notion.
That’s just not going to happen. Unfortunately the average consumer doesn’t much care about any of these things. It’s the job of governments to prevent excessive concentration in industry. They’ve been doing a piss poor job in recent decades.
Facebook has enough money and influence to just buy the next big social media. Hell, most people don’t even seem aware Instagram is owned by them.
Everything is owned by like 10 companies. They all need to be busted up.