Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the creation of Meta, which is a new company that will serve as the parent company for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and a variety of other applications underneath that sort of brand.
The Wall Street Journal, I think, put it in plain terms when they said in the metaverse you're going to be able to walk on the moon in your pajamas.
Now Zuckerberg has come out and said, "We think young adults are our North Star." So this is 18- to 29-year-olds he's talking about in this instance.
Do you think that maybe this metaverse will also have that impact on people? We've seen with the current tech platforms that it has this impact.
It's a poor version of what I think Zuckerberg and all of these technologists espousing techno-solutionism to all of our problems are promising.
So in terms of policy prescription, I might go out on a limb here, but I don't think that all of the solutions lie in Washington, D.C. As our new incoming president says, "You have to have a beachhead here in D.C." And there is a role for the Congress and federal government to play in ameliorating some of the effects that Big Tech has had on conservatives and the American people in particular, but solutions need to be found outside of the District, in my mind.
So there's been talk about private right of action, letting the people actually sue these tech companies when they are acting as publishers and not platforms, when they're influencing the information that you see in a way that newsrooms do.
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