Mark Zuckerberg Wants The Government To Help Police Internet Content

'Mark Zuckerberg says regulators and governments should play a more active role in controlling internet content,' according to the BBC, calling for new laws governing harmful content, election integrity, privacy, and data portability.

An anonymous reader quotes their report:
In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Facebook's chief says the responsibility for monitoring harmful content is too great for firms alone... 'Lawmakers often tell me we have too much power over speech, and frankly I agree,' Mr Zuckerberg writes... In brief, Mr Zuckerberg calls for the following things:

- Common rules that all social media sites need to adhere to, enforced by third-party bodies, to control the spread of harmful content
- All major tech companies to release a transparency report every three months, to put it on a par with financial reporting

- Stronger laws around the world to protect the integrity of elections, with common standards for all websites to identify political actors

- Laws that not only apply to candidates and elections, but also other 'divisive political issues', and for laws to apply outside of official campaign periods

- New industry-wide standards to control how political campaigns use data to target voters online

- More countries to adopt privacy laws like the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force last year

- A 'common global framework' that means these laws are all standardised globally, rather than being substantially different from country to country
- Clear rules about who's responsible for protecting people's data when they move it from one service to another

Zuckerberg believes the same regulations should apply to all web sites to make it easier to stop the spread of 'harmful content.' He also says Facebook will be creating 'an independent body so people can appeal our decisions' when content is taken.

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