As congressional leaders call for more transparency from the tech giant on user privacy, Clegg urges lawmakers to come on board. And in addition to the Facebook safety features, they are welcoming more oversight from Congress.
The company will be sending data on content it publishes every 3 months to an independent audit, Clegg says. He told ABC, “we need to be held to account.”
“We’re not saying this is somehow a substitution of our own responsibilities, but there are a whole bunch of things that only regulators and lawmakers can do,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And at the end of the day, I don’t think anyone wants a private company to adjudicate on these really difficult trade-offs between free expression on one hand and moderating or removing content on the other.”
Facebook mostly agrees with Haugen
“Our job is to mitigate and reduce the bad and amplify the good, and I think those investments, that technology and some of that evidence of how little hate speech there is compared to a few years ago, shows that we are moving in the right direction,” Clegg says.
