Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook cannot be expected to manage the crisis around election misinformation campaigns on its own. The Facebook CEO, speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Wednesday, said that while the company was focused on questions of election security and interference before the 2020 US presidential election, “those are really hard questions to answer”. “I don’t think as a society we want private companies to be the final word on making these decisions,” he added. Facebook is scrambling to address concerns over misinformation spreading on the platform before voters head to the polls. Zuckerberg discussed some of the many scandals facing Facebook during an event with the Harvard law professor and Facebook consultant Cass Sunstein.

Source: The Guardian June 27, 2019 00:33 UTC