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"When it comes to Facebook and Snapchat, I think the thing to be aware of, which we tend to overlook, is what is their product exactly? What is Facebook's product? It's people posting things and that's a hard thing to control ultimately," Lee said.
The factor that could really end up hurting Facebook is that the social media giant has to protect its product which is people, he explained. "We saw over the weekend, the Israeli government blasted Facebook for having all these posts on the website that incited violence. Facebook doesn't take them down because they determine what's hateful, what's not hateful. Facebook is acting as a super natural government on its own largely to protect its product which is people saying things on the network," Lee noted.
The necessity of social media companies to protect freedom of speech rights for users is a "definite risk factor" for them all, Lee added. |