In putting out a fire over privacy, Mark Zuckerberg needs to be careful that he doesn't throw oil over another burning issue at Facebook.
"Is this just a way for Facebook to avoid any responsibility for what people share on the platform?" asked Damian Collins, the British lawmaker who has been investigating the Cambridge Analytica scandal for months.Facebook and Google will be punished with giant fines in the UK if they fail to rid their platforms of toxic content
He told Business Insider:"This becomes a charter for spreading disinformation and other harmful content if the platform is basically going to absolve itself of any responsibility to know people are sharing." García Martínez has similar suspicions."The dedication to encryption is Zuck's move to get out from under the content moderation onus, and simply write off dealing with the issue,"Concerns were also raised by Ben Horowitz, the cofounder of the influential Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Horowitz's partner, Marc Andreessen, is a Facebook board member.
"If a social network is truly private via end-to-end encryption as Mark Zuckerberg specified, nobody including Facebook or the U.S. Government would be able to monitor it for hate speech and other violations. Essentially, Facebook would be flying right into the face of some of the current backlash against them,"Zuckerberg has promised to publicly consult with experts around the world, including governments, law enforcement, regulators, and safety advocates, to address these issues.
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