THE MESSAGE OF THE FOUNDER FACEBOOK

MARK ZUCKERBERG

"BUILDING A GLOBAL COMMUNITY"

"Our greatest opportunities are now global, such as spreading prosperity and freedom, promoting peace and understanding, lifting people out of poverty, and accelerating science.Our biggest problems also need global responses, such as ending to terrorism, fight against climate change and prevent pandemics ".

The entrepreneur acknowledges his mistakes while apologizing. He is aware of the different challenges the world is currently facing. His speech highlights five priority actions: self-help communities, security, information, civic engagement and cultural inclusion. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg therefore gives the social network a mission to "bring humanity together." It is also a long manifesto anti-isolationism and pro-globalization.

This is why the leader thinks that Facebook must have a mission other than that of simple vector of social link in society: "The best thing we can do with Facebook is to develop a social infrastructure to give the opportunity to people to build a global community that works for all of us. The formation of groups would constitute the links of this "global community. And currently, according to him, more than 100 million Facebook users have joined "very significant" groups. »» Which allows the latter to exchange with peers at some point in their lives. For Facebook it is important to further promote these groups.

The commitment to safety comes by IA for Mark Zuckerberg evoking the success of Facebook with its Safety Check feature. Indeed this feature is active during disasters and allows to quickly notify his friends that we are safe.It is his ambition to further this option Safety Check, to allow to ask or propose the help and extend its reach over time, for example in conflict zones.

But Mark Zuckreberg also hopes to develop artificial intelligence capable of analyzing the billions of posts posted on Facebook to detect illegal or dangerous content. For him it is a matter of working hard so that AI can make the difference between the articles on terrorism and those of terrorist propaganda.

Thus Zuckerberg also intends to tackle the phenomenon of misinformation present on its platform He insists on the porosity of the boundaries between opinion, satire and lies and undertakes to diversify the sources of information offered to members.

And to bring other points of view - by integrating a work of verification of facts, without practicing censorship. To do this, Facebook intends to offer a greater diversity of opinions instead of censoring certain content. In September, Facebook was accused of censorship for suppressing a famous photo of the Vietnam War as it showed a naked girl burned with napalm. Zuckerberg acknowledges his mistakes: Facebook could - wrongly - "delete accounts and content that should have stayed online and maintain hateful content that should have been deleted". Mark Zuckerberg announces that in order for these problems not to happen again each user will be able to adapt his profile according to his sensitivity. The moderation settings will now be customizable according to its personal tolerance threshold or that of geographical areas. As far as nudity is concerned, there will now be differences of opinion between European countries and Asian or Middle Eastern countries.

The founder of Facebook also remains committed to connecting the entire planet so that people can become more involved in their society. The American entrepreneur puts globalization at the heart of his manifesto, crucial for the development of a company that has nearly 2 billion users worldwide. "When we started Facebook, the idea of ​​connecting the world was not controversial, "he told the New York Times. "Progress requires that humanity not come together around cities or nations, but rather with a global community," said the American without making explicit reference to the news, such as the arrival of Donald Trump with its will to fall back on America or Brexit.

Finally for Zuckerberg it is necessary to keep an inclusive community. For this new tools will be developed for the detection of content that does not respect its charter of use. Artificial intelligence technology could be part of the solution for better management of Facebook's daily content flow.

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