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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It’s a theater play to give the impression that the Senate is in charge and can do something to hold social media companies accountable for all the scams, mass voter manipulations, child predation and other shitty things going on large platforms.
In practice social media companies ~~buy~~ donate tons of money to politicians, and politicians can’t really regulate it because a lot of people would take it as an attack on free speech and a very clear 1st Amendment case, so they don’t really risk anything.
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