Facebook risk, concern over 2020 elections

Facebook acknowledges for itself that these types of platforms have tremendous impact.

Foreign “Actors will try to influence US presidential elections in 2020. But there will be other efforts, as in 2016”, Facebook technical chief Mike Schroeder told the German newspaper “Welt am Sonntag”.

His entrepreneurship is trying to find protection mechanisms from propaganda and the use of artificial intelligence (KI), Schroepfer said.

But Facebook here is fighting “against an opponent who is finding different methods. In this area you are never sure that all sources have been identified, he adds.

Schroeder goes one step further in this interview. He has the conviction that the decision on what content should be stopped on the Internet and what can't still be taken. The question facing this case is “Should Facebook prohibit cultural, social, political differences? He gives the answer himself.

That's “The “over the long term is society that should play a crucial role. The society must decide which posts and texts on this platform are regular and which is not”, he underlines.

Facebook is suspected to have been massively abused by the Russians in the 2016 elections. But such phenomena continue to be observed in many other countries in times of choice. /tch