Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a lengthy message today which addressed some drastic measures the company has taken to “prevent harm,” especially from bad actors who try to use the platform to influence U.S. elections: For 2018, my personal challenge has been to focus on addressing some of the most important issues facing our community – whether that”s preventing election interference, stopping the spread of hate speech and misinformation, making sure people have control of their information, and ensuring our services improve people”s well-being. In each of these areas, I”m proud of the progress we”ve made. We”re a very different company today than we were in 2016, or even a year ago. We”ve fundamentally altered our DNA to focus more on preventing harm in all our services, and we”ve systematically shifted a large portion of our company to work on preventing harm. We now have more than 30,000 people working on safety and invest billions of dollars in security yearly. To be clear, addressing these issues is more than a one-year challenge. But in each of the areas I mentioned, we”ve now established multi-year plans to overhaul our systems and we”re well into executing those roadmaps. In the past we didn”t focus as much on these issues as we needed to, but we”re now much more proactive. That doesn”t mean we”ll catch every bad actor or piece of bad content, or that people won”t find more examples of past mistakes before we improved our systems. For some of these issues, like election interference or harmful speech, the problems can never fully be solved. They”re challenges against sophisticated adversaries and human nature where we must constantly work to stay ahead. But overall, we”ve built some of the most advanced systems in the world for identifying and resolving these issues, and we will keep improving over the coming years. Read the full FB post here Image Credit: Fortune 47 views
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Has Fundamentally Altered Its “DNA” To Focus On Preventing Harm – The Clover Chronicle
