Zuckerberg, who also issued a pseudo-apology earlier Wednesday, told CNN Money's Laurie Segall, «There are things like
ads transparency regulation that I would love to see,» adding, «If you look at how much regulation there is around advertising on TV and print, it's just not clear why there should be less on the Internet.»
«On the basic side, there are things like
ads transparency regulation that I would love to see.
«I think there are things like
ads transparency regulation that I would love to see,» he said, apparently talking about a bill in the Senate for transparency in election ads.
«There are things like
ad transparency regulation that I would love to see.»
That's why it makes perfect sense for him to have told CNN «I'm not sure we shouldn't be regulated» and that «There are things like
ad transparency regulation that I would love to see.»
Not exact matches
Democratic lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly on Monday backed a plan that would require new
transparency and disclosure
regulations for social media
ads.
A bill introduced last session by GOP lawmakers would have defied advocates of
transparency and expressly exempted issue
ads from
regulation.
Mr. Zuckerberg added that he would be willing to testify in front of Congress if it was the right thing to do and said he didn't oppose some forms of
regulation, specifically around
ads transparency — a project that Facebook has been working on since last fall.
In a recent CNN interview, even Zuckerberg admitted that perhaps the company should face some
regulation, though he was careful to offer only minor concessions like
transparency for political
ads.
If it is true that Facebook
ads can help businesses by altering people's attitudes about purchasing decisions, as some academic studies suggest, «it's Facebook's own data collection and the tools it makes available to clients that should be the target of scrutiny and perhaps
regulation, both from a privacy perspective and for the sake of political
transparency,» Bershidsky wrote.