Why would Facebook want to crack down on big tech?

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🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Mark Zuckerberg says he wants new rules for social media. Every year politicians and security experts meet in Munich to discuss how to keep the world safe. This year they invited Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. He told the conference governments need to create new rules for social media platforms to stop the spread of harmful content and disinformation. So why is big tech’s biggest player asking for more regulation? The BBC’s tech reporter Zoe Kleinman came into the Beyond Today studio to talk what social media regulation might involve, and to Ali Breland, an expert on disinformation. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Alicia Burrell, Katie Gunning and Harriet Noble Mixed by Weidong Lin Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.6	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.2	where we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, why would Facebook want to crack down on big tech?
0:26.0	So I think that there needs to be regulation in at least four areas.
0:35.0	Every year in February at the Bayerisha Hoff Hotel in Munich in Germany,
0:40.0	a few hundred people from dozens of countries meet to discuss keeping the world safe and secure.
0:46.0	This year, among the influential people who were invited was Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook.
0:52.0	There are a lot of decisions in these areas
0:55.0	that are really just balances between different social values.
0:58.0	What is, what should be the balance between free expression and safety.
1:03.0	What is political discourse?
1:05.8	And what's the boundary between that
1:07.2	and political interference?
1:08.8	And in Munich, Zuckerberg said
1:11.0	governments need to come up with new rules for social media.
1:15.0	It's not up to Facebook to decide what's allowed, he argued.
1:19.0	The politicians need to.
1:20.0	I believe what our responsibility is is to build the operational muscle to be able to proactively enforce whatever the
1:28.1	policies and regulations are. Why does he want rules? Social media firms are under pressure to stop the spread of
1:35.6	disinformation and to do more to prevent harmful images and videos appearing in your feed,
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