“It’s an arms race,” Mark Zuckerberg said. “Russia and other folks have also gotten much more sophisticated…. We’ve seen new tactics.'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees in Washington in April 2018. has fractured in the face of a series of privacy breaches and other scandals, the company has been facing fresh calls for regulation from numerous quarters of the federal government.
“Results in elections have been a lot cleaner online due to a lot of the work we and others have done in partnership,” Zuckerberg said. Still, he said, there are decisions about what constitutes acceptable political speech and advertising that Facebook, as a private company, should not be making by itself.
But these tactics, even paired with “sophisticated AI systems” the company has built to detect misinformation campaigns, aren’t sufficient to combat foreign interference akin to what was seen during the 2016 presidential election, according to Zuckerberg.
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