Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Didn't Do Enough to Prevent Fake News

  • 6 years ago

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is coming to Washington with a mea culpa and a pledge to do better. That's according to Zuckerberg's written testimony prepared for a Wednesday hearing in the House Energy & Commerce Committee. In his testimony Zuckerberg says, "It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well." He goes on to say this applies to "fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.

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