Mob Media

Social media's rise over the last 15 years has been astonishing, and it has given a voice to billions worldwide who would have lived a lifetime and never been heard. The business model of social media is understood by few outside the programming community and, sadly, very few in government. Social media at its core can be very social, but the amount of connections that can be made is ungoverned and, in certain circumstances, can lead to deindividuation. People's right to Freedom of Speech, which is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution in the US, is an important part of individual liberties in conjunction with the right to Internet access. This is exploited by Meta and other social media companies globally as people feel free to express themselves, but when looked at psychologically, social media platforms don't mirror human interaction and social behavior in real life. We are cognitively predisposed to know and communicate with only about 150 people at a given time, and the average human can only memorize about 5,000 faces. Thus, social media's governance and design can be mentally harmful to users and result in mass social unrest. Social media companies have been incorrectly protected in the US by Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which was never intended to protect organizations but individuals. Social media platforms are organizations profiting from the sale of advertising and algorithms that promote information that is trending to increase profits. With a lack of liability and oversight, this has resulted in mental health problems of users, public unrest, and forcing authentic journalism to become entertainment, tabloid-style news. With artificial intelligence, social media platforms can suspend accounts for activity that isn't opinion and defamatory or untrue in nature and should, until it can be moderated by a representative at the organization. Unfortunately, the vast majority of governments have turned a blind eye toward the administration of social media platforms, the