On Saturday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for more outside regulation in several areas in which the social media site has run into problems over the past few years: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg said governments and regulators, rather than private companies like Facebook, should be more active in policing the Internet. More regulation over what constitutes harmful content could "set a baseline" for what is prohibited and require companies to "build systems for keeping harmful content to a bare minimum," he wrote. Zuckerberg and others are "beginning to realize the wild Wild West of the internet of the past, those days are gone," said Tim Bajarin, president of consultancy Creative Strategies. Earlier this month, Zuckerberg said he was shifting the company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy.

Source: CBC News April 01, 2019 14:28 UTC