“I’ve focused on building services to do two things: give people voice, and bring people together,” Zuckerberg said. In his remarks, the Facebook chief executive referenced Frederick Douglass, the history of free speech in the U.S., the Black Lives Matter movement, and more recent movements for free expression in North Africa. “I think that’s dangerous.”Zuckerberg’s remarks came at a time of increased focus on how companies like Facebook deal with issues of free speech and content moderation. Zuckerberg went on to acknowledge that offering people a podium for free expression would inevitably lead to abuse. But while Zuckerberg singled out China as a threat to free speech, his remarks were clearly also meant to appeal to U.S. lawmakers.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 17, 2019 18:40 UTC