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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg apologises to families in fiery US Senate hearing
Source: BBC
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to families who say their children had been harmed by social media, during a fiery hearing in the US Senate.
Mr Zuckerberg - who runs Instagram and Facebook - turned to them and said "no-one should go through" what they had.
He and the bosses of TikTok, Snap, X and Discord were questioned for almost four hours by senators from both parties.
Lawmakers wanted to know what they are doing to protect children online.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68161632
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Back from unloading millions in the bank.
https://democraticunderground.com/100218642752
There are many labels for the endemic problem in the tech industry: the “technological fix,” technological determinism, and technological solutionism. Each means slightly different things but the basic story is: people who are obsessed with tech think that it will solve all.the.things™ and they are fools.
