Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urges strict regulation for online content

Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has urged for more regulation of harmful online content and said that re is a need for governments and regulators to have “a more active role”. Zuckerberg said that a new regulation is needed in four areas ie harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability, as per reports.

While speaking at Munich Security Conference in Germany, he said that social media giants like Facebook are under increasing pressure to curb spre of disinformation. 

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Facebook criticised for its policy

According to reports, Facebook has been criticised for its policy on political vertising. It launched new policies for political vertising in US in 2018. se rules require political s to display who h paid for m and a copy of is being stored in a publicly searchable database for seven years. Earlier this week, social media website said it would t include any sponsored political posts by social media stars in its database. 

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Zuckerberg urges government to come up with new regulatory system

Zuckerberg urged governments to come up with a new regulatory system for social media. He said that to tackle problem, Facebook has a team of 35,000 people reviewing content and security on platform. He furr said that more than a million fake accounts are deleted every day with help of AI assistance. 

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Meanwhile, Stephen King, an American author has quit social media website, Facebook and anunced news on Twitter on February 1. According to 72-year-old author, he was 't comfortable' with 'false information' which is being allowed in Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. King also expressed his doubt with company's ability to 'protect users' privacy' and urged his followers to find him on Jack Dorsey's microblogging site, Twitter. 

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