The last few days have been pretty rocky for both Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg due to the Cambridge Analytica controversy. Leaders around the world have been asking Zuckerberg for an explanation and he finally provided one in a Facebook post. Following the post and release of some new rules and policy initiatives, the company CEO granted a rare on-camera interview with CNN, and spoke to others like Recode, the New York Times and Wired.
When you go through the interviews, you can see Zuckerberg showing an actual apology for what’s happened. He said to Recode, “We let the community down and I feel really bad and I’m sorry about that.”
When speaking to CNN on whether or not Facebook should be regulated, Zuckerberg said, “I actually am not sure we shouldn’t be regulated,” and referenced how the company’s reaction to “bad actors” who try to manipulate elections has changed. While the company was not proactive in the 2016 election, he said that the company used AI tools during the French election and other events around the world to detect and filter out fake accounts.
Take a look through the videos below.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is "sure someone's trying" to use Facebook to meddle with the US midterm elections. "There are going to be some new tactics that we need to make sure that we observe and get in front of" https://t.co/W2WMtTnBpw pic.twitter.com/ooMGj3TfXR
— CNN (@CNN) March 22, 2018
.@LaurieSegallCNN: "Knowing what you know now, do you believe Facebook impacted the results of the 2016 election?"
Mark Zuckerberg: "Oh that's — that is hard. You know, I think that it is — it's really hard for me to have a full assessment of that." https://t.co/m3F79UMHd8 pic.twitter.com/y41ON2LatL
— CNN (@CNN) March 22, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will proactively reach out and notify "anyone whose data might have been affected" by the massive Cambridge Analytica data breach. https://t.co/DojUEzPh5O pic.twitter.com/zbBOCpMDuR
— CNN (@CNN) March 22, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is "happy to" testify before Congress "if it's the right thing to do" https://t.co/QLmFe43vp2 pic.twitter.com/0UH7WVxqW9
— CNN (@CNN) March 22, 2018
