Virtually the entire media world is picking through reams of internal Facebook research, writing stories about company insiders’ foreknowledge about harmful effects of social media, their willingness to relax terms of service for major accounts, and their inability to police content beyond U.S. borders. A company in a near-perpetual state of backlash for the last half-decade was so rattled by the pressure that it changed its name to Meta and decided to focus on building a second version of Second Life for the purpose of holding small-group business meetings.
But with substantially less fanfare, the American Economic Liberties Project laid out what we should all be focused on with Facebook: the growing set of allegations that it’s a transnational criminal enterprise that will continue to break the law unless its leadership is held accountable.
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