Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will defend the social platform as a “positive force in the world” when he addresses Congress on Tuesday while admitting he made “a big mistake” by not taking seriously the social network’s responsibility to its two billion users. “But it’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well. That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy. Just recently, we’ve seen the #MeToo movement and the March for Our Lives, organized, at least in part, on Facebook. And when we address these challenges, I know we’ll look back and view helping people connect and giving more people a voice as a positive force in the world,” he writes.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2018 17:03 UTC