Shortly after making his appeal for greater societal involvement in online regulation, Mr Zuckerberg said while Facebook had “gotten better” at policing content since the 2016 US presidential election, the modern world had brought its own challenges to politics. Mr Zuckerberg was visiting his company’s European headquarters in Dublin, where he repeated recent calls for internet regulation. Verifying identitiesAs for the European elections, he said Facebook would be verifying the identities of anyone who wanted to run political ads or large pages. The company would work alongside election commissions and intelligence agencies to look for bad actors before they spread misinformation, he said. “This is what I have personally spent a lot of my last few years on; we are investing a lot in this.”

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2019 22:54 UTC