Growing disenchantment with Bay Area tech companies is certainly not limited to concerns about fake news and foreign propaganda. That Bay Area tech companies are having something of a PR crisis is clear. Erin Griffith, The Other Tech Bubble, Wired (Dec. In 2017, tech workers are the world’s villain.” 6 6. As one reporter put it, “In 2008, it was Wall Street bankers.
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Since 2011, Facebook has asked for exemptions, arguing that “political ad disclosures could hinder free speech” and that the FEC “should not stand in the way of innovation.” Id. In addition, “n a rare act of unanimity, all current FEC commissioners voted to reopen public comments” on the Federal Election Commission’s rule exempting Facebook from its political advertising disclosure regulations. being discussed seriously in Washington.” 5 5.
legislation imposing new restrictions on how they operate is, “or the first time in years. 23, 2017), Sarah Frier & Bill Allison, Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads, Bloomberg (Oct. 10, 2017), Ben Brody & Bill Allison, Lobbying Group for Facebook and Google to Pitch Self-Regulation of Ads, Bloomberg (Oct. See Mark Bergen et al., Google, Facebook, Twitter Scramble to Hold Washington at Bay, Bloomberg (Oct. Despite intensive lobbying efforts by these companies, both individually and through their collective trade association, 4 4. Craig Timberg et al., Fiery Exchanges on Capitol Hill as Lawmakers Scold Facebook, Google and Twitter, Wash. And you have to be the ones to do something about it. Facebook complied, with Zuckerberg himself meeting with lawmakers.ĭuring the recent hearings before the Senate and House intelligence committees on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, Senator Dianne Feinstein told the general counsels of Facebook, Google, and Twitter-whose CEOs were conspicuously absent-“You bear this responsibility. John Thune to Mark Zuckerberg 2–3 (May 10, 2016).
In May 2016, in the wake of allegations that Facebook workers had suppressed pro-conservative viewpoints and links while injecting liberal stories into the newly introduced Trending Topics section, Senator John Thune sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg demanding, among other things, a copy of the company’s guidelines for choosing Trending Topics, a list of all news stories removed or injected into Trending Topics, and information about what steps the company would take to “hold the responsible individuals accountable. Social media companies are in Congress’s sights. Le Guin, Speech in Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (Nov. “ts power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings.”
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