Zuckerberg: “Actually, I’m not sure we shouldn’t be regulated”
Zuckerberg: Maybe tech should face some regulations
BY ALI BRELAND - 03/21/18 09:47 PM EDT
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said on
Wednesday that he’s open to having his company be regulated.
“Actually, I’m not sure we shouldn’t be regulated,”
Zuckerberg said in an interview with CNN that represented some of his first
public remarks since the Cambridge Analytica controversy plunged his company
into crisis and led to calls for his testimony before Congress.
“I actually think the question is more ‘What is the right
regulation?’ rather than ‘Yes or no, should it be regulated?’” Zuckerberg told
CNN.
The Facebook CEO said that “he would love to see” new
transparency regulations for political advertisements. Facebook has been
criticized for a lack of transparency.
“If you look at how much regulation there is around
advertising on TV, in print, you know, it's just not clear why there should be
less on the internet,” he said.
Facebook and other tech firms have resisted legislative
efforts in Congress to impose new regulations.
Late year, Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mark Warner
(D-Va.) introduced the Honest Ads Act, legislation that would hold internet
platforms like Facebook to the same political ad disclosure standards as TV,
radio and print political advertisements.
The bill has yet to gain traction in Congress. Even
though Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has backed the bill, few Republicans have
been willing to follow suit and publicly jump on board.
Facebook has faced intense scrutiny from critics,
including lawmakers on Capitol Hill, since it revealed that the British
research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly took data from 50 million Facebook
users without those users' consent.
The company had previously been scrutinized for how
Russian groups used its platform to attempt to influence the 2016 presidential
election.
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