Mark Zuckerberg has taken a "personal challenge" for 2018 - and it involves improving the functioning of his brainchild Facebook. The social media platform's co-founder, Zuckerberg, in a post said that Facebook has a "lot of work to do" and that he would focus on fixing these so that 2018 ends on a "much better trajectory".
In the post on 4 January, Thursday, Zuckerberg wrote:
The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do -- whether it’s protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.
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He added that his company would not be able to prevent all mistakes or abuse made on the platforms, and admitted that the organisation is currently making "too many errors enforcing our policies and preventing misuse of our tools".
While he said that this might not seem like a personal challenge on the face of it, Zuckerberg asserted that he would learn more by focussing "intensely" on these issues than by doing something separate.
“These issues touch on questions of history, civics, political philosophy, media, government, and of course technology”, he wrote.
In his post, he also said that government is using technology to watch their citizens, given the rise of a small number of big technology companies. The greatest challenge, according to him, is that many people now believe technology only "centralizes power than decentralizes it".
Zuckerberg is no newbie to personal challenges. Since 2009, he has been taking a resolution every year to learn something new.
He had previously vowed to visit every state in the US, run 365 miles, build an AI for his house, read 25 books and learn Mandarin -- all of which he has completed successfully.
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