'Where's the line?' MSNBC's Steele hammers Zuckerberg for allowing attacks on young girls
MSNBC's Michael Steele raged at Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Sunday for doing away with fact-checking and allowing "suggestive comments" beneath the pictures of "young girls" on its platforms, among other questionable practices.
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, announced last week that it would no longer fact check posts, essentially opening the floodgates for bigoted and inappropriate content. Zuckerberg's change in tactics is seen as a nod to President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP who claimed Meta fact-checking was biased against conservative content.
Steele, Symone Sanders-Townsend, and Alicia Menendez all expressed outrage as they read "permissible" posts from a leaked Meta training manual published by The Intercept.
"Oh, my God! This is for the bigots and the people that hate other people!" Sanders-Townsend exclaimed. "This is not for most Americans. This is for the...internet bullies. And I just I don't unders — that is not about fairness...Why do the bigots need a platform?"
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Alicia Menendez interjected, "I also thought it was interesting — Did you see this, Michael — that in their statement they said, 'Well, if they can say things on the floor of Congress, they should be able to say —' well, I wouldn't use the floor of Congress right now as my metric!"
"So, are we mimicking the Congress or is the Congress mimicking us?" Steele asked. "And, so, where is the line in which we, as a society, say that, you know, putting suggestive comments beneath the picture of a young girl under the age of 17 is okay? is that what we're saying now, Mark Zuckerberg? You can do that? You're okay with posting pictures of young girls with suggestive language beneath their picture? Because that's now permissible on your platform. So, that's what this is about. And, so, when parents get upset and just put out by this, where do they go? And when and bad things happen because of what you're platforming. You're going to sit back and go, 'Well, we're not responsible. Section 203, we're protected. We don't have, we have no responsibility here. It's just a platform.' Bull! It's more than that and you know it."
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