Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn’t have a high opinion of platform-owning social media and advertising companies, most of which is now embroiled in an ongoing controversy about Russian interference in the 2016 US election.
Cook addressed the congressional hearings, saying that the social media companies have “learned along the way a lot,” and that “we’ll probably learn more in those hearings as to the particulars.”
He went on to say that just as all New York companies aren’t all the same — and all media companies aren’t the same — well, all technology companies aren’t the same, either. They have different values, different principles, different business models.”
I don’t believe the big issue are ads from foreign governments. I believe that’s like .1 percent of the issue,” Cook says. “The bigger issue is that some of these tools are used to divide people, to manipulate people, to get fake news to people in broad numbers so as to influence their thinking.
