'Facebook Is What's Wrong With America'

The Salesforce CEO and owner of Time Magazine, Marc Benioff, sees a common thread for what ails America today: deception that is allowed to spread like wildfire on Facebook. 'This digital revolution really kind of has the world in its grip. And in that grip, you can see the amount of mistrust and misinformation that is happening,' Benioff told CNN. From a report: 'Look at how it is affecting the world. You can talk about the political process. You can talk about climate. You can talk about the pandemic,' Benioff said. 'In each and every major topic, it gets connected back to the mistrust that is happening and especially the amount of it being seeded by the social networks. It must stop now.'

'Some of these social media companies, especially Facebook, you can see that they don't really care that their platform is filled with all of this disinformation,' Benioff said. The tech billionaire called for Congress to crack down on Facebook's disinformation problem. 'I own Time and I am held accountable for what is produced on my platform,' Benioff said, adding that CNN and other media outlets are also held accountable. 'In regards to Facebook, they are not held accountable. So they do not have an incentive from the government. That has to change.' Benioff urged Congress to review existing laws to try to stop the 'level of deceit' happening on social networks.

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