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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 06:54 PM Sep 2020

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove anti-vaccine posts despite Covid concerns [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't remove anti-vaccine posts despite Covid concerns

Social media chief denied that Facebook’s algorithms are designed to push viewpoints ‘that are going to kind of enrage people’

Edward Helmore
Wed 9 Sep 2020 16.16 BST

Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has said he “hopes” his social network will not effectively destroy society as we know it.

Zuckerberg also said it’s “just wrong” to consider that Facebook is driven by conservatives, in a new interview.

“I don’t think that the service is a rightwing echo chamber,” Zuckerberg told Axios on HBO in an interview published Wednesday. “Everyone can use their voice and find media they trust that reflects the opinions and life experiences they’re having.”

In the interview, Zuckerberg rejected the proposition that history will remember Facebook for hastening the destruction of society.

“I have a little more confidence in democracy than that. And I hope my confidence isn’t misplaced,” he said, adding: “What we do, and I think a lot of what the internet does overall, is give individuals more power.”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/09/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-not-rightwing-echo-chamber

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