information the communities have gotten smaller. so you have. a very narrow view of the world people in their own little groups if we look at the situation in germany in europe that's probably something that can still be compensated through public debate but when we have these misinformation campaigns these fake news that come through facebook or people in other parts of the world this can be. deadly when we have seen these types of cases on facebook that have led to the deaths of people. and so i have really very serious concerns. as to whether the facebook business model can really be significantly changed and brought back to its original mission as a communications platform. if

we. look at it. for example we have to think about what it's become is it still something which is manageable controllable can you really give us a serious answer to this question of vietnam sometimes on the twenty fifth of may. we have the general data protection regulation which will enter in to forces. we've had a lot of information that facebook supports this. but is this the case have you really taken one of the half billion people outside of the effective reach of. regulation people from other parts of the world who were previously covered but now it's not covered so is that is that true that figure that

this regulation no longer. why to these people. but when you said that the regulation would be implemented insincerity what does that mean exactly. over the last few years there have been a large number of meetings with high ranking facebook officials within the e.u. with different commissioners for example different members of the you i think. ninety two different meetings that altogether millions have been spent on lobbying work here in the e.u. as well. as to try and postpone the data protection regulation is this really in the interests of facebook. we have to think about the relationship between power and society here and then just one.

very last question that might not seem important to many but it is important to me . facebook not. was originally founded as a hof or not platform for students to. evaluate students and their attractiveness this is a very long time ago of course. but i would like to know that how is facebook's philosophy changed in the meantime. looking at discrimination against women in sexism or violence against women etc thank you very much they would soon it would seem as some of the informants your own ability to discern and clarify things for you is that investors look at that has been excited invited to take part in a conference of presidents meeting he's never refused to take part in any meeting is your fattal w. imagine that when he accepted the invitation to attend. i simply asked him

whether he would allow the meeting to be web streams and he said yes you could he go. back if you don't have any criticisms on that front but i just thought it important to set the record straight and i support mr ferrars european of them in that chair of the european free europe of freedom and direct democracy group. here. the was. ok i'll start again zuckerberg i'm the largest user of facebook in all the e.u. institutions in terms of followers in terms of engagement so i'm i'm your best client here in the room i've no idea of the value of that but i'm pleased to see you as i hope you are me the one slight problem i have i'm watching very carefully to testimony that you gave on capitol hill time but again people ask you is this genuinely a neutral political platform and you come up with the same line again and again

it's well crafted you say that facebook is a platform for all ideas now historically of course it's true that through facebook and other forms of social media there is no way that breaks it or trump or the italian elections could ever possibly have happened it was social media that allowed people to get around the back of mainstream media and now perhaps you're horrified by this creation of yours and what it's led to i don't know but what is absolutely true is that since january of this year you change your modus operandi you've changed your algorithms and it has led directly to a very substantial drop in views and engagements for those that have got right of center political opinions at the facts are very clear just look at president trump's numbers on a much smaller scale look at mine look at thousands of other conservative

commentators and on average we're down about twenty five percent. over the course of this year and you know that's happening on a platform for all ideas i'm not talking here mr zuckerberg about extremism i'm not talking about encouraging violence i'm not talking about hatred of anybody i'm talking about people who have majority mainstream opinions and frankly i feel what interests me is who decides what is acceptable who are these people you referred to earlier these third party policy fact checkers who are these people i mean why is there no transparency in this process at all i'm not generally somebody that calls for legislation on the international stage but i'm beginning to wonder whether we need a social media bill of rights to basically protect free speech and i'm asking you today very very clearly that would you accept that today facebook is not

a platform for all ideas that is operated impartially. think you are mr fadden now and is that. we don't have a lot of time but he is now the next speaker it is me and he said he got a big share of the european nation and freedom group. much as you can then you act like data protection is clearly a major issue for us citizens. and that's what the previous speakers of all focused on but even more important is respect for fundamental freedoms. your social network is now almost no knock leave position in many parts of the world it creates dependent say among the internet users uses. facebook as an algorithm it's a platform for a new communications. it has

a major impact of freedom of expression and freedom of information. place grigs decisions are very important for example it's the same with planning a newspaper if you. speak you have decided to delete a number of false accounts but i can tell you about real accounts has been blocked facebook move of. the french group. jeanette as you know i don't attack had its website. on facebook closed down because it had strong views but peaceful views about migration they had two hundred thousand followers and i think that this is very worrying and as a terror to tell a tarion implication. if you prevent. you from constantly turning the pages of legal organizations then you are preventing users from getting access to

a plurality of opinions opinions that are present in our society. usual. imagine if a telephone operator decided to close down the numbers of people who tend to agree with the views of the company and they don't. like them it is seen this as a privatized ation about public liberties you. beyond any jurisdictional or parliamentary control it is furthermore unacceptable that the kind of private a sovereign state in many which competes with challenges nation states is mr talk about the valley meet you have a responsibility towards the millions of users of your platform i know it's a huge responsibility for you to question. the opera tree censorship are carried out by facebook is it compatible with the fundamental values about democracy back

it was used by which legal criteria do you justify the decision to close down facebook pages expressing legitimate immunity. and a third rapid question asked of you the hunt for fake news is very fashionable right now. but you will have enough become a new excuse for further restricting freedoms of opinion and expression thank you for spears because we need to respect this timing timing the first is mrs not touch of the members of the floor. thank you mr president and thank you mr zuckerberg for appearing here today i remember this parliament from northern ireland in the united kingdom. and while many of my colleagues here today have focused on elections and the issues of facebook and public policy i want to take

you in a slightly different direction in my question today in a few weeks' time. a family within my constituency will mark the third anniversary of the loss of their son to online bullying his name was real name and he was seventeen years old when he died he was. they kicked him off a false they spoke a kind from online bullies who persuaded him to send an intimate photograph of himself. and then asked for three thousand pints in return for not posting this on his facebook a kind. romance family have been incredibly brave in publicizing this case and in dealing with this situation but this is only one example of the rise of false

a kind within facebook and i would like you to tell us today what you're doing to stop the rise of fall space book kinds which deliberately target young and vulnerable people. ronan clearly felt he had no where to go can you explain to us then as well i'm and in light of this phenomenon which is a terrible thing right across europe can you explain to us what you're doing to work with third party organizations to try and educate people and safety in using the internet. and would you tell us whether or not you are content that other families represented or right in this room here today will have their children caps see if by the settings and default settings that you use on on your particular site can i just very quickly also say we live in

a europe and the rise of anti-semitism and the rise of terrorism much of it conducted and much of the information conducted on line in the last few weeks you've said that you've taken down a lot of that the an offensive comment from your site can you tell us how you define acceptable comment on the site what are the benchmarks you use and whether or not facebook actually is capable of regulating this for itself thank you. mrs g. the recent share of the comfort of the committee chair you have the floor thank you very much mr president and thank you also for organizing and sharing this meeting with us tonight thanks to you mr conveying for having agreed to appear and to. our questions we appreciate that a lot it is it has been already stated many times but it must be underlined again

that it essential that e.u. citizen can trust that their integrity and their rights on the internet are being protected and it is specially since the e.u. neuros on data protection are entering into force in only three days as from now i'd like to raise two questions to you mr zuckerberg firstly the scandal involving facebook and cambridge analytical is more than anything else an issue of ethics and values you said in your intervention in the hearing with the us congress you repeated it here tonight that facebook is responsible for the content on the platform once facebook. request other companies to delete users' data does facebook follow up to check compliance by these companies and how will you ensure that they this is really down and secondly i am convinced that you use citizens would like to know which specific measures that will be taken by facebook to ensure that just

scandal like this one cambridge analytic i will not to cure again you have shared your views in spirit on a on greater responsibility on what happens on the platform but mr can but can you guarantee to the millions of users many of them use it isn't that the company will take all the necessary steps to ensure that civil rights and liberties according to your standards and that facebook fully will comply to the g d p r and when this will happen it will be good to have a date for in full compliance this is in short thank you. shirley because me to your the floor thank you very much president thank you mr zuckerberg for being here and we hope that our committee will examine further with facebook executives and so on in-depth and this is for people who are watching this

where cimon want a more in-depth investigation the mystery for a slightly characteristically talked about her politically was on facebook i may be the most.