{"id":13213,"date":"2024-02-04T09:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/when-dead-children-are-just-the-price-of-doing-business-zuckerbergs-apology-is-empty-carole-cadwalladr\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T08:38:29","slug":"when-dead-children-are-just-the-price-of-doing-business-zuckerbergs-apology-is-empty-carole-cadwalladr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/when-dead-children-are-just-the-price-of-doing-business-zuckerbergs-apology-is-empty-carole-cadwalladr\/","title":{"rendered":"When dead children are just the price of doing business, Zuckerberg\u2019s apology is empty | Carole Cadwalladr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook boss faced the parents of victims in Senate hearings, but until legislators finally stand up to social media giants, nothing will change<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t generally approve of blood sports but I\u2019m happy to make an exception for the hunting and baiting of Silicon Valley executives in a congressional committee room. But then I like expensive, pointless spectacles. And waterboarding tech CEOs in Congress is right up there with firework displays, a brief, thrillingly meaningless sensation on the retina and then darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s grilling of Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Silicon Valley \u00dcbermenschen was a classic of the genre: front pages, headlines, and a genuinely stand-out moment of awkwardness in which he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/31\/tiktok-meta-x-congress-hearing-child-sexual-exploitation\">forced to face\u00a0victims<\/a> for the first time ever and apologise: stricken parents holding the photographs of their dead children lost to cyberbullying and sexual exploitation on\u00a0his platform.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/feb\/04\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-us-congress-deep-fakes-disinformation-technology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c45a63db23a2f3a8f20eef99a93b211e90254dca\/0_172_5120_3072\/master\/5120.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5b5af720080dd9964faec56c229da720\" title=\"When dead children are just the price of doing business, Zuckerberg\u2019s apology is empty | Carole Cadwalladr\" \/>The Facebook boss faced the parents of victims in Senate hearings, but until legislators finally stand up to social media giants, nothing will change<br \/>\nI don\u2019t generally approve of blood sports but I\u2019m happy to make an exception for the hunting and baiting of Silicon Valley executives in a congressional committee room. But then I like expensive, pointless spectacles. And waterboarding tech CEOs in Congress is right up there with firework displays, a brief, thrillingly meaningless sensation on the retina and then darkness.<br \/>\nLast week\u2019s grilling of Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Silicon Valley \u00dcbermenschen was a classic of the genre: front pages, headlines, and a genuinely stand-out moment of awkwardness in which he was forced to face\u00a0victims for the first time ever and apologise: stricken parents holding the photographs of their dead children lost to cyberbullying and sexual exploitation on\u00a0his platform. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook boss faced the parents of victims in Senate hearings, but until legislators finally stand up to social media giants, nothing will change I don\u2019t generally approve of blood sports but I\u2019m happy to make an exception for the hunting and baiting of Silicon Valley executives in a congressional committee room. But then I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/when-dead-children-are-just-the-price-of-doing-business-zuckerbergs-apology-is-empty-carole-cadwalladr\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When dead children are just the price of doing business, Zuckerberg\u2019s apology is empty | Carole Cadwalladr<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}