{"id":24259,"date":"2019-02-18T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24259"},"modified":"2019-02-18T12:35:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:35:35","slug":"time-to-bring-facebook-to-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24259","title":{"rendered":"Time to bring Facebook to book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Facebook is an out-of-control train wreck that is destroying democracy and must be brought under control. The final report of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee\/news\/fake-news-report-published-17-19\/\">parliament\u2019s inquiry<\/a>&nbsp;into fake news and disinformation does not use this language, precisely, but it is, nonetheless, the report\u2019s central message. And the language it does use is no less damning.<\/p><p>Facebook behaves like a \u201cdigital gangster\u201d. It considers itself to be \u201cahead of and beyond the law\u201d. It \u201cmisled\u201d parliament. It gave statements that were \u201cnot true\u201d. Its CEO,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/may\/12\/facebook-brexit-russia-unresolved-40-questions\">Mark Zuckerberg, has treated British lawmakers with \u201ccontempt\u201d<\/a>. It has pursued a \u201cdeliberate\u201d strategy to deceive parliament.<\/p><p>In terms of how lawmakers across the globe need to think about Silicon Valley, the report is a landmark. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the opening paragraphs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/feb\/18\/a-digital-gangster-destroying-democracy-the-damning-verdict-on-facebook\">a piece<\/a> by &#8220;Guardian&#8221; reporter Carole Cadwalladr on today&#8217;s Select Committee report on fake news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Facebook is an out-of-control train wreck that is destroying democracy and must be brought under control. The final report of&nbsp;parliament\u2019s inquiry&nbsp;into fake news and disinformation does not use this language, precisely, but it is, nonetheless, the report\u2019s central message. And the language it does use is no less damning. Facebook behaves like a \u201cdigital gangster\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24264,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions\/24264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}