Rein in Zuckerberg, says former mentor Roger Macnamee

Facebook is standing first in the firing line of criticism of the big tech companies who are accused of selling users private data, channelling propaganda and fake news and damaging democratic elections. More countries around the world are now starting to talk about regulating Facebook and other social media platforms. Zuckerberg did not help his case by refusing to appear before a Parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom which concluded that Zuckerberg failed to show leadership or personal responsibility over fake news on Facebook. This forced the country’s Digital Minister, Jeremy Wright to fly to San Francisco to see Zuckerberg about their concerns. Following that meeting, Facebook has announced that controversial far right-wing British agitator, Tommy Robinson also known as Stephen-Yaxley-Lennon would be permanently removed from their platform. In Britain there is overwhelming support for tougher regulation: 80% of people surveyed by a private data security firm Eskenzi PR wanted tighter government control. A former mentor of Zuckerberg, Roger McNamee has written a book about Zuckerberg, titled “Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe”. In an interview with Bloomberg’s Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney he explains why he changed his mind about Zuckerberg…