BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg answers questions on Tuesday from the European Parliament in Brussels on a massive data leak affecting millions of users.
Below please find his main quotes.
Europeans make up a large and incredibly important part of our global community. Many of the values Europeans care most deeply about are values we share: from the importance of human rights and the need for community to the love of technology, with all the potential it brings.Â
But it’s also become clear over the last couple of years that we haven’t done enough… We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility. That was a mistake and I am sorry.
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Keeping people safe will always be more important that doubling our profits.
In less than 18 months there are important elections… In 2016, we were too slow to identify Russian interference on Facebook in the U.S. presidential elections… We weren’t prepared enough for the coordinated misinformation campaigns that we are aware of now.
We are doubling the number of people working on safety and security at our company to more than 20,000 by the end of this year.
(Reporting by Brussels Newsroom)
