Mark Zuckerberg acknowledges to reform internet rules
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday laid out steps to reform internet rules. Mark said that companies should have immunity from liability only if they follow best practices for removing material causing damage from their platforms.
In testimony prepared for a hearing before House Energy and Commerce subcommittees on Thursday, Zuckerberg acknowledged the move to bring changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which gives companies like Facebook immunity from liability for content posted by users.
Facebook, along with Twitter and Alphabet’s Google whose CEOs Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai have been under fire from Democrats for misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic and the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. On Thursday, Facebook, along with Twitter and Alphabet’s Google will testify on the same.
Zuckerberg said in the prepared testimony that they believe Congress should consider making platforms’ intermediary liability protection for certain types of unlawful content conditional on companies’ ability to meet best practices to combat the spread of this content.
He mentioned that if a particular piece of content evades its detection, platforms should not be held liable for that. It would practically be impossible for platforms with billions of posts per day.
