Zuckerberg Says Facebook Has Been Socially Responsible
29 Julio 2020 - 02:01PM
Noticias Dow Jones
By Jeff Horwitz
Mark Zuckerberg's pitch to Congress: What's good for Facebook is
good for America.
The Facebook Inc. CEO's testimony sought to reframe the
company's size - and history of aggressive past acquisitions - as
patriotic, and took some shots at his fellow tech CEOs, saying some
are "gatekeepers with the power to decide if we can even release
our apps in their app stores to compete with them."
Calling Facebook a proudly American company, Mr. Zuckerberg
argued that it had been a socially responsible steward for the
platforms that it has built and acquired. The company's scale
allows it to invest in content moderation, tools that help mitigate
Coronavirus hardships and new forms of social media, he said.
Mr. Zuckerberg's comments fit into the company's recent efforts
to redirect scrutiny of its business toward TikTok, an insurgent,
Chinese-owned social media platform that has caught on with young
users. But his criticism of the other companies represented at the
hearing marked the day's first divide among the committee's
witnesses.
The chief executives of Amazon.com, Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook
Inc. and Google are appearing Wednesday before the House Antitrust
Subcommittee investigating the market dominance of online
platforms.
--Write to Jeff Horowitz at jeff.horowitz@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 29, 2020 14:46 ET (18:46 GMT)
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