Dex Hunter-Torricke
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And of course, the company absolutely would point to all the things that
it thought might be positive stories for the company and how it did those things.
You know, you'd look at his, all the money that's raised on charity on Facebook.
True thing.
Very, very powerful for lots of organizations to raise money on Facebook.
But at the same time, there'd be other things where, you know, the company would have a sort of, eh, we've got enough on our plate.
You know, that's not really a thing for us right now.
And so actually, I'm not saying that
suddenly Zuckerberg had to make the refugee crisis his number one thing.
I absolutely think if you have a thesis about you're connecting the world and you're building this motor of society and you happen to be one of the world's richest people, you probably should make it a part of your responsibility.
But there's any number of other issues which absolutely are things where the company dropped the ball on.
Why is it our societies are so deeply divided and angry now in a world awash with disinformation and hate?
That is something which absolutely wasn't the company's power, and it touched the lives of refugees and non-refugees alike.
It shapes all of our lives.
It shapes the entire digital ecosystem, and the company did not meet its obligations there.
Yeah, that's absurd.
Look at how much the algorithm on X shifted once Twitter became X under Elon, right?
You'd spend five seconds in there, it's just a complete cesspool of the absolute worst people who've been algorithmically boosted now to dominate your feeds.
Absolutely.
There are choices made every day in the architecture of these platforms and the content they're surfacing.