The CEO of Facebook spoke out against the establishment of a “specific regulation on harmful content” online.
Online content should be subject to intermediate regulation between that governing telecom operators and that covering the media industry, said Mark Zuckerberg at a security conference in Munich (Germany) on Saturday 15 February. “I don’t think there should be specific regulations on harmful content (…) We must ask ourselves the question of the regulatory framework that we use for this”said the CEO of Facebook during a question and answer session.
“There are currently two regulatory frameworks: that of newspapers and media, and that of telecom operators. For the latter, it is considered that ‘the data is just being retransmitted by you’. You are not going to make a telecom operator responsible if someone ever makes harmful comments through a telephone line, he continued. I think there should be something in between [cadres réglementaires]. “
Speaking to heads of state and their security officials, the Facebook CEO also assured that the social network had stepped up its fight against online electoral interference. The digital giants are coming under increasing pressure to better combat the states and political groups that use their platforms in order to circulate rumors and false information. Mark Zuckerberg said he employs more than 35,000 people to review online content and enforce security rules. Facebook suspends more than a million bogus profiles a day, he added, adding that most of them are detected within minutes of their creation.
“Our budget is more important today than the revenue we were earning when the company went public in 2012, when we had a billion users, he said. I am proud of our results, but we will remain vigilant. “
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