The development comes as part of a litany of accusations against Facebook for unscrupulous conduct, including allegations in January 2019 that it had knowingly allowed child users to spend large sums of money on its platform without their parents’ knowledge.
Facebook has become an out-of-control “digital gangster” that is helping to destroy democracy and which must, as a consequence, be brought to heel — that is essentially the conclusion of a new report into online “disinformation” by the UK parliament.
In a nutshell, the report, penned by the parliamentary Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee, found that Facebook has repeatedly broken the law by setting out to destroy online competitors and selling users’ private data to other companies in order to generate profit. At one point, the report suggests that Facebook may be guilty of breaching the ‘Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act,’ which is a law drawn up in the US to defeat organised crime.
