He didn’t apologize, he gave a canned non-committal, non-incriminating PR response. Bah, dude is a piece of shit. His added comment that there’s no scientific evidence linking social media usage to harming mental health is also completely false. Literally just search using something like, “study linking social media usage to depression or anxiety,” and see the dozens of academic studies that either show causal relationships or strongly imply it.
Zuckerberg said. “Mental health is a complex issue and the existing body of scientific work has not shown a causal link between using social media and young people having worse mental health outcomes.”
Non-apology followed by an actual denial. Very misleading headline.
Mark suckerberg “I’m sorry but please continue to give me complete access to your child’s privacy!”
“I’m sorry that you feel that way but I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Reminds me of this
I need to know, exactly how is it Facebook or Zuckerberg’s fault that these kids were talking to insidious perverted adults online? I don’t see any particular way that what Facebook offers is objectively more unsafe than any other IM provider. Facebook fucking sucks, but if your kid wants to talk to the candy man online, they’ll find out how. Like, this isn’t a discussion on how “social media affects kids brains”, it’s a discussion on how evil Facebook allowed children to be sexually exploited by predators.
The chief executives of the nation’s top social media companies were grilled on Wednesday on Capitol Hill over child safety, with the tech leaders seeking to defend their companies from accusations that they’ve failed to protect kids from exploitation and abuse.
So again, how is this any different than the IM client that IG offers? Snapchat? Discord? Telegram? Signal? Teams? Twitter? Tumblr? Roblox? Fortnite? CSGO?
The kids don’t want to speak with the “candy man” creeps will seek out children, the creep will cement themselves as a safe adult and will groom the child who likely comes from a already troubled background.
I agree with the sentiment of what you said but the framing is flawed.
The fault lays with the adult and not the child. Adults should know better, and most will not entertain communication beyond pleasantries/assistance.
Pedophilia isn’t a social media issue but a cultural one, the fix isn’t based around the platforms used but the predictors them selves, weather from childhood trauma or neurological disorder we need to push away the stigma and reform these cultural issues. But this isn’t to say we shouldn’t have safe guarding, if an account flags as younger then fb, insta, discord etc should do they’re diligence in banning those accounts as well as monitoring the accounts that are actively seeking minors, parents need to be involved in the lives of they’re children and must limit/monitor what the child is doing on the web.
