Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation

QuestionMcKinley confronts Zuckerberg with fresh staff-identified examples of oxycodone, Ritalin, Xanax, and Adderall being sold on Instagram — three years after Zuckerberg apologized for the same problem on Facebook — and repeatedly asks whether Zuckerberg should be held personally liable, comparing it to liability for retailers selling cigarettes to minors and manufacturers held liable for the opioid crisis.

ResponseZuckerberg does not answer the personal-liability question directly, instead arguing that at Meta's scale it's inevitable some illegal-drug-sale content will be missed (comparing it to a police force that can't stop every crime), and pushes back on the characterization that Meta is "studying the problem" rather than acting.