i don t think regulating it in the terms of companies being big is a good thing. we see facebook, twitter, power is in new things coming aloss. i think that the market will take care of unseedy needs and if dwoent overregulate because when there is so much regulation, only facebook can keep up with it and entrenches facebook s power. well, it is none of the companies want regulation. i mean, i was talking about it. it is astonishing how fast facebook killed that bill. it was a done deal. and the defense authorization bill. it was done. and then it got stripped out. yeah. yes. you know, i ve seen dozens of bills be proposed on regulating technology companies and none of them passed. and i really don t think that regulation is where we re going to see accountability first. i agree with elizabeth. consumers will vote with feet. we re seeing facebook see the losers that users are not using the site as much and
you have to make a choice. you can t just knee jerk reshare this. make an effort. yeah. be intentional. intention alt sharing. that is the same impact on misinformation as the entire third party fact checking. it doesn t choose which ideas are good or bad. it says let s have humans make choices, not just reflexes. that reduces the amount of content spread in the system. decreases profits. and facebook declined to make that choice. all of their business models so this was taken away, this would massively change the company? the way to think about safety on social media platforms is very small choices where if you make them and you .1% of profit, .2% of profit, the problem is these industries are so sensitive to growth that when
i said this is my chance to do something. what are you just finding is that how often they change the algorithm. and to me it shows you they know what is happening. like they can do this. but you were in the similar position. do you feel as if they wanted you to succeed? one of the best civic responsibilities available in the industry. it wasn t until they dissolved that unit immediately after the 2020 election that i realized the company wasn t committed to this enterprise. that if you want to have successful change in enterprise,
creating it. and that sort feels like what all the social media companies. they are starpted with good intentions and it got out of hand. it lost control. yeah. there are two guiding forces. they wanted companies that would grow and grow fast and grow big and scale to point where they re global and they would have historic and lasting impact. the second thing these are businesses. these are companies motivated by profits. the business model is built on the idea of getting eyeballs and attention to serve up to advertisers. and to make money that way. and that, i think, is if you miss those two important points, you sort of miss what is happening here. they never what i want to get at is they never thought, hey, we re going to be trafficking misinformation. they never did. that seemed to shock them. yeah. i think a lot of the companies are built oftentimes by actually sort of young male idealistic entrepreneurs with big dreams and they got lots of funding.
25 times, 27 times. overwhelmingly those events were when something came out that demonstrated fab was going to have to spend more money on safety. facebook is scared that if we actually had transparency, if we had accountability, they would not be a company with 35% profit margins, they would be 15% profit margins. so you took this job in the civil integrity team. what is the specific motivation. tell me about it. back in 2016, i had a very close friend who helped me relearn to walk. i was very ill. i was paralyzed below my knees. over the course of the middle of 2016, after bernie sanders lost