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Zuckerberg: If Someone Gets Fired For Data Abuse 'It Should Be Me' (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the umm-okay dept.

Mark Zuckerberg isn't planning to fire himself. At least, not at the moment. From a report: During an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher published Wednesday, the Facebook CEO touched on Russians interfering with US elections, misinformation, data breaches, the company's business model and more. When asked by Swisher who's to blame for the Cambridge Analytica scandal and related data misuse, Zuckerberg said he "designed the platform, so if someone's going to get fired for this, it should be me." Swisher followed up by asking if he was going to fire himself. "Not on this podcast right now," he said. Zuckerberg also defended the social media platform's decision not to kick off conspiracy theory-peddling websites like the far-right InfoWars. From a report: Zuckerberg said that instead of banning websites outright, the company removes individual posts that violate Facebook's terms of service. Posts promoting violence are particularly likely to be taken down, he added. Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said even Holocaust deniers have a place on the platform as long as they genuinely believe the content they share. "I find that deeply offensive," he said. "But at the end of the day, I don't believe that our platform should take that down because I think there are things that different people get wrong. I don't think that they're intentionally getting it wrong."

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  1. Pointless by Tinsoldier314 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's fire the guy that can live a thousand lifetimes with the money he's got, that'll show'em! Congrats to Zuckerberg for taking one for the team.

    It should require more than a trite mea culpa and a retirement of decadence and luxury to get the heat off them.

    1. Re:Pointless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Perhaps, but wouldn't it be better if they didn't amass ungodly sums of money at the expense of the middle class? Much of the damage that those donations go towards fixing are the result of a small number of greedy people earning profits without consideration for the consequences. There's no point in people having more than a few million dollars, after that, you've got your food, shelter and the like taken care of for life and still enough money left over to be able to have some fun.

  2. Well...there's the door.... by DewDude · · Score: 3, Insightful

    GTFO.