Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook user agreement sucks, says Senator; 10 highlights
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday testified before the Congress and during his five-hour testimony, the lawmakers asked him some tough questions on fake news, Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election and censorship of conservative media. He also formally apologised to the Congress for mistakes that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal and emphasised that his company was rethinking its responsibility to users and society. Facebook is currently embroiled in a widening scandal involving British data firm Cambridge Analytica, which, allegedly, improperly gathered detailed Facebook information on 87 million users, according to the latest estimates. An earlier estimate had pegged the number at more than 50 million.This is the first time that the Facebook CEO is testifying before the Congress. Top 10 highlights of Mark Zuckerberg's hearing at US Senate, tough questions taken up by the Facebook CEO and Cambridge Analytica controversy:
1. Will ensure fair elections take place in India, says Zuckerberg at Senate hearing: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told them that his company will do everything to ensure fair polling takes place in India and other countries. "2018 is an important year for the whole world. Several countries like India, Pakistan will have elections. We'll do everything possible to ensure these elections are safe," Zuckerberg said. 2. Zuckerberg says didn't do enough to prevent Facebook from being used to harm others: For the first time, Mark Zuckerberg accepted that he did not do enough to prevent Facebook from being used to harm others. He said, "Facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company. 3. Mark Zuckerberg 'regrets Facebook's slow pace in identifying Russia interference in US presidential elections: "This is one of my top priorities is to get this right. One of my greatest regrets is we were slow in identifying the Russian operations in 2016," Zuckerberg said at the Capitol Hill. 4. Zuckerberg says Facebook 'needs to do a lot better' enforcing its policies about content: "It's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm, as well. And that goes for fake news, for foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy", Zuckerberg said. 5. Mark Zuckerberg tells the Senate how Facebook has become an 'American dream': For most of our existence, we focused on all of the good that connecting people can do. Just recently, we've seen the "Me Too" movement and the March for our Lives organized, at least in part, on Facebook. After Hurricane Harvey, people came together to raise more than $20 million for relief. 6. Mark explains what Cambridge Analytica did: When we first contacted Cambridge Analytica, they told us that they had deleted the data. About a month ago, we heard new reports that suggested that wasn't true. 7. What Facebook will do to prevent data leakage: To make sure no other app developers out there are misusing data, we're now investigating every single app that had access to a large amount of information in the past. 8. Questions taken up and answered by Makr Zuckerberg: 9. Will do more to tackle hate speech in Myanmar: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today promised to do more to tackle hate speech in Myanmar. 10. Will make sure Facebook is a positive tool, says Zuckerberg: Ahead of his senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook, "in an hour I’m going to testify in front of the Senate about how Facebook needs to take a broader view of our responsibility -not just to build tools, but to make sure those tools are used for good.
ARTICLE SOURCE- BUSINESS STANDARD.