Apple CEO returns fire: Attacks social media for spreading false information

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday launched an attack on social media networks, including Facebook, claiming that such platforms are responsible for real-world violence and dehumanization of users. Cook said this the day after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg accused Apple of exploiting Its advantage to promote its products on the grounds that it is a significant injury to competition. “In days when false information and conspiracy theories are rampant, we can not turn a blind eye to the theory of social media involvement in the issue,” Cook said. Reference to the riots on Capitol Hill since the beginning of the month. Cook, however, did not name Facebook, but the social network is receiving most of the fire due to its involvement in organizing the uprising and its failure to stop the spread of false information about the US presidential election results. Google’s Twitter and YouTube are also partly to blame. Is not new and started when the iPhone maker announced that it would start distributing alerts to its users that would reflect the way apps track users, the change requires app developers to ask users for permission to generate personal ads from the information they collected. Zuckerberg attacked Apple for the move last week, accusing it of using its position to harm competition and promoting its services, including iMessage at the expense of the Facebook and WhatsApp messenger app, and believed that the fact that iMessage was pre-installed on the company’s devices helped it To the most popular messaging service in the United States.

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