Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg states it’ll take 3 years to “fix” the platform.
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“Fixing” Facebook will take 3 years, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated in an interview with Wired.
“You can’t just hire 30,000 people overnight to go do something,” Zuckerberg stated. “You have to make sure that they’re executing well and bring in the leadership and train them. And building up AI tools — that’s not something that you could just snap your fingers on either.”
In January, Zuckerberg vowed he ‘d “fix” Facebook’s greatest issues this year and stated he aspired to fix significant problems that pester the platform, consisting of abuse and election disturbance. “My personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing these important issues,” he composed then, in an open letter. “We won’t prevent all mistakes or abuse, but we currently make too many errors enforcing our policies and preventing misuse of our tools.”
In April, nevertheless, the information scandal including Cambridge Analytica appeared, triggering a public protest and triggering Facebook to guarantee to go even further. New steps consist of auditing apps to discover more bad stars, restricting the sort of information designers can gather from Facebook users, and alerting individuals if their information was dripped to Cambridge Analytica.
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Facebook’s comments to Wired appear as the social network hosts its F8 developer conference, in San Jose, California. The company expects more than 5,000 developers to attend.
The annual conference began as a way for Facebook to announce major initiatives, such as its technology to connect users’ accounts with websites around the web, as well as revamped designs for users’ profile pages. Most recently, the company has used the event to discuss better ways for app developers to tie into its services with things like games for its Messenger service, augmented reality features for its Facebook app, and new artificial intelligence programs.
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has tightened control of information collected through apps. In March, it suspended app reviews.Â
“I think there is concern, and it’s clear that our priorities are making sure that people’s data is secure,” Zuckerberg told Wired. “The reality is the vast majority of developers have good intent and are building good things. So I think if you’re a good developer, it’s annoying that app reviews got stopped, but you’re not really worried long term about the direction of the platform.”
CNET’s Ian Sherr and Richard Nieva contributed to this report.
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