Following the release of the Wall Street Journal’s “The Facebook Files”, major tech corporations are under greater scrutiny than ever before. With damning evidence of Facebook’s knowledge of its damaging effects on mental health, especially on that of young girls, among other internal failures, many are calling for systemic change.
Politicians, parents, mental health experts, kids, and general users alike have rallied behind efforts to hold Facebook accountable, with some even claiming Big Tech companies should pay monetary damages for their detrimental effects on mental health, and others calling for new legislation that would reduce the legal ambiguity that has protected Big Tech thus far. But how realistic are we to expect that these demands will be accepted, and at what point must we learn that these companies will not change until we do?
When the Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, first leaked the internal documents, outrage spread across the nation. Well, at least a week.
The documents, which were released in the Wall Street Journal’s investigation, were published in September. Three months later, proposed legislation still has not been passed and any form of meaningful restitutory action from Facebook itself has yet to be seen.
No significant steps have been taken to remedy Facebook’s evident “toxicity”. Yet, as headlines condemning Facebook have descended in status from landing page stories to last month’s news, the outraged voices that called for change just...
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