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Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany,
Zuckerberg said Facebook had improved its work countering online
election interference, and expanded on his previous calls for
regulation of social media firms.
"I do think that there should be regulation on harmful content
... there's a question about which framework you use for this,"
Zuckerberg said during a question and answer session.
"Right now there are two frameworks that I think people have for
existing industries - there's like newspapers and existing
media, and then there's the telco-type model, which is 'the data
just flows through you', but you're not going to hold a telco
responsible if someone says something harmful on a phone line."
"I actually think where we should be is somewhere in between,"
he said.
Facebook and social media giants including Twitter <TWTR.N> and
Alphabet's Google <GOOGL.O> have come under increasing pressure
to better combat governments and political groups using their
platforms to spread false and misleading information.
Zuckerberg said he now employed 35,000 people to review online
content and implement security measures.
Those teams and Facebook's automated technology currently
suspend more than 1 million fake accounts each day, he said,
adding that "the vast majority are detected within minutes of
signing up."
"Our budget is bigger today than the whole revenue of the
company when we went public in 2012, when we had a billion
users," he said.
"I'm proud of the results but we will definitely have to stay
vigilant."
(Reporting by Jack Stubbs and Paul Carrel; Editing by Frances
Kerry)
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