Facebook exec blames users for spreading misinformation and says social media firm doesn't have enough money or staff to eliminate it

It's all YOUR fault: Facebook exec blames users for spreading misinformation and says social media firm doesn't have enough money or staff to eliminate it

• Newly-appointed Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said that people, rather than social media, are to blame for the proliferation of misinformation online
• The veteran developer, who joined Zuckerberg in 2006 and invented the 'news feed,' said the 'onus should be on the individual' in 'any meaningful democracy'
• He called Facebook a 'fundamentally democratic technology,' despite the recent revelation that the platform allowed high-profile users to break its policies
• Asked whether vaccine hesitancy would be the same with or without social media, he said that individuals choose what sources to trust
• 'That's their choice. They are allowed to do that. You have an issue with those people. You don't have an issue with Facebook. You can't put that on me'
• Bosworth touted that Facebook's information counter-campaigns to spread authoritative information on COVID and the vaccine
• 'I'm uncomfortable... that we possess enough fundamental rightness , even in our most scientific centers of study, to exercise those powers on another human'
• 'If we took every single dollar and human that we had, it wouldn’t eliminate people seeing speech that they didn’t like on the platform'