“We need a radical shift in the balance of power between the platforms and the people,” committee chairman Damian Collins said. “We are open to meaningful regulation and support the committee’s recommendation for electoral law reform,” Facebook’s UK public policy manager Karim Palant said. The British committee does not propose legislation, but does have the power to summon witnesses for its investigations. “We believe that in its evidence to the committee Facebook has often deliberately sought to frustrate our work, by giving incomplete, disingenuous and at times misleading answers to our questions,” Collins said. Companies like Facebook were also using their size to bully smaller firms that relied on social media platforms to reach customers, it added.

Source: Standard Digital February 19, 2019 06:11 UTC