(PTI)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will take a series of measures to ensure that the social media platform won’t be misused to influence elections this year in India and elsewhere.
“This is a massive focus for us to make sure we’re dialed in for not only the 2018 elections in the US, but the Indian elections, the Brazilian elections, and a number of other elections that are going on this year that are really important,” Zuckerberg, 33, said in an interview to the New York Times. India will hold several key state polls this year ahead of general elections in 2019.
Zuckerberg also apologised to users for allowing political-advertising firm Cambridge Analytica to gain access to the personal data of 50 million Facebook members without their knowledg.
