'Lawmakers often tell me we have too much power over speech, and frankly I agree': Mark Zuckerberg calls for more outside regulation over the internet

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• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged in a Washington Post op-ed for more regulation over the internet.
• He said Facebook has run into problems in four main areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy, and data portability.
• He said privacy rules such as those in Europe should be adopted around the world.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling for more outside regulation in several areas in which the social media site has run into problems over the past few years: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.

In an opinion piece Saturday in The Washington Post, Zuckerberg says governments and regulators rather than private companies like Facebook should be more active in policing the Internet. He says privacy rules such as the General Data Protection Regulation, which took effect in Europe last year, should be adopted elsewhere in the world.

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