Facebook should be regulated, Mark Zuckerberg has said after apologising for the leak of 50 million users’ data to a British company accused of interfering in elections.
Asked if he was worried by pressure from governments, he said: “I actually am not sure we shouldn’t be regulated . . . in general, technology is an increasingly important trend in the world. I think the question is more ‘what is the right regulation?’ rather than ‘yes or no, should we be regulated?’”
The Kremlin targeted Facebook users with pro-Trump propaganda during the US presidential election campaign in 2016. Investigators are looking into whether the data of 50 million users obtained without their knowledge by Cambridge Analytica may have also been used by the Trump campaign, and