Sheryl Sandberg: Breaking up Facebook will not repair social networks

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Facebook is doing the effort needed to secure elections and your personal privacy. That’s the message from Sheryl Sandberg in interviews with CBS This Morning and CNBC on Friday.

Sandberg, the social media network’s chief running officer, informed CBS This Morning that making back individuals’s trust will be hard, however that she and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will do “whatever it takes” to keep individuals safe on Facebook. (Editor’s note: CNET is owned by CBS.)

Sandberg likewise reacted to a current op-ed from Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who stated Zuckerberg had excessive power which the business must be separated.

“You could break us up, you could break other tech companies up, but you actually don’t address the underlying issues people are concerned about,” Sandberg informed CNBC.

Facebook, together with other social networks business like Twitter and YouTube, has actually been called out for refraining from doing enough to battle election meddling, false information and dislike speech. Critics have actually likewise argued that Facebook’s massive power requires to be kept in check.

Sandberg acknowledged that users are worried about personal privacy, however included that each of Facebook’s engineering and item groups now have systems in location concentrated on safeguarding individuals’s personal privacy, according to CNBC.

When it pertains to elections, Sandberg stated Facebook is all set for 2020.

“We never ever visualized Russian disturbance in the 2016 election … which’s on us,” she informed CBS This Morning. “Going into the 2020 election, we have war rooms in place. We have a working relationship with the FBI and Homeland Security … and we’re all working together.”

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On Friday, EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said breaking up Facebook would be “a remedy of the very last resort.” This may come as a surprise given that the European Union has typically been more heavy-handed than the US when it comes to regulating Silicon Valley tech companies. Vestager in particular has a reputation for coming down hard on US tech giants, thanks to record-breaking fines she’s handed out to Amazon and Google. 

Originally published May 17, 9:19 a.m. PT.
Update, 11:49 a.m.: Adds comment from EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager.