Under fire on all sides, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, went on the offence Thursday against his critics. The address was an unusually public doubling down by the tech billionaire on a free speech stance that has been highly criticised. Facebook’s position on political speech is part of a growing divide between social media companies and traditional media companies. Civil rights groups said they were stunned by how hands-off Facebook was being on political speech. During the speech, Zuckerberg said he had considered banning political ads from Facebook.

Source: bd News24 October 18, 2019 04:07 UTC