Mark Zuckerberg replied Chris Hughes: Facebook's CEO finally responded to co-founder Chris Hughes and his proposal released by the NYT. Hughes asked regulators to separate Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Mark Zuckerberg sent his response from Paris during his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
"When I read what he wrote, what I thought was that what he is proposing to do is not going to help resolve these issues. So I believe that if you are interested in democracy and elections, then you want a company like us to be able to invest billions of dollars a year in building really advanced tools to fight election interference. "
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEOZuckerberg's argument is in the idea that specific problems Facebook's concerns with privacy, security, and disinformation will not be directly addressed by breaking up the company, as that would hamper the overall efforts to safeguard its social networks.
Facebook's family of apps would theoretically have less financial pconditions για να επενδύσει σε τεχνολογία ασφάλειας όπως είναι η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη που μπορεί να εντοπίζει τα bots που διαδίδουν fake news influencing voters.
Hughes had said that:
"Mark's influence is shocking, and it goes far beyond the influence of anyone else in the private sector or government. It controls three major communication platforms - Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - used by billions of people every day.
Only Mark can decide how to set up Facebook's algorithms to determine what users see in their News Feeds, what privacy settings they can use, and what messages are delivered. It sets the rules for how to distinguish hate speech, violence in conversation, or a simple verbal attack, and can choose to shut down a competitor by acquisition, foreclosure, or copying.
Mark is a good man, but I'm angry with him because his focus on growth has led him to sacrifice security and courtesy for clicks. "
But Zuckerberg argues that Facebook's size benefits the public, and Reported to journalist Laurent Delahousse:
“Our security budget this year is greater than our company's total revenue when we went public earlier this decade. And that's because we've managed to build a successful business that can now support it. You know, we invest more in security than anyone else social network social media. "
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEOZuckerberg's reasoning, of course, that dissolution "is not going to help" is an indisputable denigration of Hughes 'claim and that of former United Kingdom Under Secretary of State Nick Clegg, who supports Hughes' proposal.
"What matters is not the size but the rights and interests of consumers, as well as our accountability to governments and regulators that oversee trade and communications. . . The big one in itself is not bad. Success must not be punished. "
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook CEO
But Hughes's most extreme point was the point that said users were trapped on Facebook.
"Competition could not necessarily bring greater privacy (regulation is required to ensure accountability), but the market lock by Facebook guarantees that users can not protest by switching to alternative platforms."
"After Cambridge Analytica" people did not leave the company's platforms en masse. Where were they going? "
