Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls for more regulation | CBC News

Inan opinion piece in the Washington Post, Zuckerberg said governments and regulators, rather than private companies like Facebook, should be more active in policing the Internet.

More regulation over what constitutes harmful content could "set a baseline" for what is prohibited and require companies to "build systems for keeping harmful content to a bare minimum," he wrote.

He said privacy rules such as the General Data Protection Regulation, which took effect in Europe last year, should be adopted elsewhere in the world.

The piece comes days after Facebook was criticized when a shooting rampage in New Zealand that killed 50 people was broadcast live on the site.

Zuckerberg and others are "beginning to realize the wildWild West of the internet of the past, those days are gone," said Tim Bajarin, president of consultancy Creative Strategies.

Facebook has weathered more than two years of turbulence for repeated privacy lapses, spreading disinformation, allowing Russian agents to conduct targeted propaganda campaigns and a rising tide of hate speech and abuse.

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