Social alla sbarra, l'accordo di Meta - PresaDiretta 18/10/2026 — Transcript

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1. 0:02Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, founder and
2. 0:04head of Meta. Net worth 255 billion
3. 0:07dollars, the sixth richest man in the
4. 0:11world.
5. 0:15>> 42 years old, a wife, three daughters,
6. 0:18a passion for the Roman Empire, surfing
7. 0:21, and martial arts. He owns a 120-meter
8. 0:26yacht and numerous properties from
9. 0:28California to Hawaii. A month ago, he
10. 0:32also bought a 50-million-euro castle in
11. 0:34Ireland, a tax haven and Meta's
12. 0:36international headquarters. Everything
13. 0:44started here, in a small Harvard dorm
14. 0:47room, where at 19, Zuckerberg launched
15. 0:50a site to connect students using their
16. 0:52names and photos. It was called The
17. 0:57Facebook and was the beginning of an
18. 0:59empire that is now worth 1 trillion
19. 1:00dollars and has no intention of
20. 1:02stopping. On this planet, nearly one in
21. 1:15two people uses platforms from the Meta
22. 1:18galaxy today—3.6 billion people a day
23. 1:20, including hundreds of millions of
24. 1:23teenagers. It is regarding their
25. 1:27responsibilities toward the youngest
26. 1:29that, for the first time this year,
27. 1:31Meta has ended up on trial. I was a
28. 1:39guinea pig. As a child, I was part of a
29. 1:43huge experiment without even knowing it
30. 1:45. An experiment in which the company,
31. 1:49now sitting in this courtroom, turned
32. 1:51my childhood into screen time to sell
33. 1:54to advertisers. I am here today because
34. 1:59my daughter should still be alive. She
35. 2:01was only 18 years old. She was a simple
36. 2:04girl from Colorado. She loved her
37. 2:06family, God, horses, and all the
38. 2:08creatures she brought to our farm. But
39. 2:12we could not know that behind her
40. 2:13wonderful appearance, she was fighting
41. 2:15a battle in the world of social media.
42. 2:20Today, a historic trial has begun. We
43. 2:23are one step away from closing the door
44. 2:25on an era. An era in which algorithms
45. 2:28designed by tech companies harm our
46. 2:30children without ever having to answer
47. 2:32for it. As a mother of two daughters
48. 2:36aged 12 and 14, I felt sick. I felt
49. 2:39sick when I read about the impact that
50. 2:41certain features of Instagram and Meta
51. 2:44can have on children who are still
52. 2:46developing. I am disgusted, I am angry.
53. 2:49We should all be angry. Nothing is more
54. 2:53important than protecting our children,
55. 2:55and there is no reason in the world for
56. 2:57their health and well-being to be
57. 2:59sacrificed or exploited to make big
58. 3:01tech rich. On August 18, 2026, in
59. 3:06Oakland, California, the biggest trial
60. 3:08ever brought against Meta begins.
61. 3:11Accusing the tech giant is a coalition
62. 3:15of 47 American states. The first
63. 3:19witness to testify in court is Arturo
64. 3:21Behar, former head of safety at Meta.
65. 3:27Super witness Zuckerberg is also
66. 3:29expected at the end of the month, but
67. 3:31on the morning of August 26, after just
68. 3:33one week of proceedings, the
69. 3:35announcement arrives. The trial is
70. 3:38closed. The company has signed an
71. 3:40agreement.
72. 3:42>> Today my office concluded the Tennessee
73. 3:44lawsuit with an unprecedented 17.1
74. 3:46billion dollar settlement that resolved
75. 3:48our case and the cases of 50 other
76. 3:50states across the country. This is one
77. 3:55of the largest consumer protection
78. 3:57settlements in history, the largest
79. 3:58settlement with big tech in world
80. 4:00history.
81. 4:01>> The sum that Meta agreed to pay, 17
82. 4:04billion dollars spread over 10 years,
83. 4:07is barely 1%of its market value. But
84. 4:12the heart of the agreement is the
85. 4:13safety measures the company must
86. 4:15introduce to protect minors. Nighttime
87. 4:18block from midnight to 6:00 AM, a daily
88. 4:21limit of 2 hours. No notifications
89. 4:24during school hours, stricter age
90. 4:26verification.
91. 4:28>> The conditions we obtained, in my
92. 4:30opinion, are better than any other
93. 4:31result that has ever been achieved.
94. 4:34>> Who will check that Meta does
95. 4:35everything you asked for?
96. 4:38>> We will have annual reports from an
97. 4:40independent oversight body, and if we
98. 4:42have doubts that the company is not
99. 4:44respecting the agreement, we can ask
100. 4:45for more information and more
101. 4:47transparency. We know we must remain
102. 4:50vigilant. We hope to save lives, to be
103. 4:52able to make them feel better. Now
104. 4:55>> the restrictions will go into effect
105. 4:57starting in February 2027, but be
106. 4:59careful, they will only apply to the
107. 5:02American states that signed the
108. 5:04agreement. For all other countries in
109. 5:07the world, us included, Meta has no
110. 5:10obligations. Yet social media addiction
111. 5:13among kids affects everyone. Since
112. 5:23Molly's death, I have met many families
113. 5:25who have lost a loved one, a child, a
114. 5:28brother, a sister, because of what
115. 5:30happens online. We are talking about
116. 5:33bullying, eating disorders, content
117. 5:35related to suicide and self-harm, like
118. 5:38in Molly's case.
119. 5:41>> Ian Russell lives in London and is the
120. 5:43father of Molly, who took her own life
121. 5:45in 2017 at 14 years old. It was the
122. 5:49first case in the world in which a
123. 5:51ruling recognized the shared
124. 5:53responsibility of what she had seen on
125. 5:55the Meta and Pinterest platforms. We
126. 5:59met him 3 years ago in our episode "The
127. 6:02Black Box," when talking about mental
128. 6:04distress linked to social media
129. 6:07overexposure seemed like a gamble. With
130. 6:11Irene Sicurella, we returned to London
131. 6:13to meet him. What has changed in all
132. 6:15this time? In a nutshell, not enough.
133. 6:19Almost 9 years after Molly's suicide,
134. 6:21the content she was exposed to online,
135. 6:23which the court recognized as having
136. 6:25contributed to her death in a far from
137. 6:27negligible way, is still available
138. 6:29online today, exactly as it was then.
139. 6:33And the most serious thing is that the
140. 6:35platforms 'algorithms continue to push
141. 6:37harmful content to children and
142. 6:39vulnerable young people. The problem is
143. 6:43that science and, above all, politics
144. 6:45—those who make the laws—
145. 6:47traditionally move very slowly, while
146. 6:49the online world moves very fast. What
147. 6:52is happening is no longer acceptable.
148. 6:54In the United Kingdom, almost one young
149. 6:56person a week takes their own life due
150. 6:58to harm linked to these platforms.
151. 7:00Every week that we fail to intervene,
152. 7:02there is another Molly, another similar
153. 7:04case.