European here, I was always confused watching U.S. Senate hearings with social media CEOs having to explain and be almost interrogated and accused of someone’s suicide from supposedly “watching content on the platform”. Why do they need to do that and is it only U.S. thing or does it happen somewhere else?
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Honestly, I think it’s just grandstanding, because never have I ever seen a single politician confront these CEOs with even a shred of technical understanding. If the goal was to actually hold CEOs accountable for what happens on their platforms, then at least one of these politicians would do the absolute minimum and research their points, even a 5 minute googling, before they take the stage.
Politicians get by on charisma, but their actual grasp of how anything more complicated than a toaster works is surprisingly poor. It seems to me they want to say their piece, show the public they are doing something, assist their chances at re-election, but not actually do anything that’d require either learning anything, doing anything, or commonly both.
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