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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: 2020 'Is Going to Be a Very Tough Year' Breitbart

Business Insider reportsthat Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is preparing for a rcky upcoming year, warning in a post that 2020 would be very tough for the firm.

During a conference call with industry analysts, which was later transcribed in a Facebook post, Zuckerberg discussed Facebooks principles and the challenges it will face in the future.

This is complex stuff, and anyone who says the answers are simple hasnt thought long enough about all the nuances and downstream challenges.

Breitbart News reported thatin an open letter posted to Facebooks internal network and signed by 250 employees at tech giant Facebook asks the firm to reverse its decision to exempt political candidates ads from the companys fact-checking program.

In the letter, the employees state:Free speech and paid speech are not the same thing, and argue that exempting candidates ads from fact-checkingallows politicians to weaponize our platform by targeting people who believe that content posted by political figures is trustworthy.

The signed letter representing 250 employees only accounts for less than 1 percent of Facebooks 40,000-person staff but does put pressure publicly on Facebook to review its fact-checking policies.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also recently took issue with Zuckerberg and his comments relating to free speech.Dorsey stated during the Twitter News Summit in New York City that there was a major gap and flaw in Zuckerbergs argument for free speech and called Zuckerbergs comments about the creation of Facebook mad during his speech at Georgetown University revisionist history.

Dorsey stated that Facebooks algorithm boosts promoted posts on the platform so that people can essentially pay to reach a larger audience which he believes is a major gap and flaw in the substance he as getting across.

Zuckerberg stated during his Georgetown University speech that Facebook was created in response to the Iraq War, saying: If more people had a voice to share their experiences, maybe things would have gone differently. This is the first time that Zuckerberg has made this claim, previously it was said that Facebook was created as a tool to rank Harvard students attractiveness, this was even a major plot point of the film made about Facebook,theSocial Network.

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