OAN Staff Avril Elfie
11:17am – Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Mehta executives claimed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to play an “active role” in shaping technology regulation under President-elect Donald Trump's administration.
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Nick Clegg, Meta's head of international affairs, also said the social media giant had gone “a little too far” in moderating content related to the pandemic.
“Mr. Zuckerberg aims to play an active role in the discussions that any administration needs to maintain American leadership in technology,” Clegg said at a Monday press conference, according to the newspaper. said. financial times newspaper.
“Given the geopolitical uncertainties around the world, and especially the pivotal role that AI will play, U.S. leadership on technology issues is critical,” Clegg added.
Clegg added that the CEO hopes that Meta's efforts to “improve the accuracy and accuracy of our rules-based actions” will become a “continued area of focus” for the company.
“We understand that our users have quite rightly spoken out and complained that we sometimes over-enforce, sometimes make mistakes, and remove or restrict content that is harmless or innocuous. “I am acutely aware of this,” Mr Clegg said.
The president-elect has previously said he opposes the idea of banning Chinese-owned TikTok, in part because it would “make Facebook bigger.”
Zuckerberg announced in August that the Biden administration will pressure Facebook to censor content related to COVID-19 and vaccines throughout 2021, including hilarious memes and satirical posts. admitted that he had done so.
Last week, Mehta also met with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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