Mark Zuckerberg

too physical harm for someone um and and kind of think about it in that sense and then beyond that i think people just have different preferences on how they want things to be flagged for them i think a bunch of people would like prefer to kind of have a a flag on something that says hey a fact checker thinks that this might be false or um i think twitter's community notes implementation is quite good on on this um

But again, it's the same type of thing.

It's like just kind of discretionarily adding a flag because it makes the user experience better.

But it's not trying to take down the information or not.

I think that you want to reserve the kind of censorship of content to things that are of known categories that people generally agree are bad.

I think we... It's very difficult to just abstain, but I think we should be clear about which of these things are actual safety concerns and which ones are a matter of preference in terms of how people want information flagged.

So we did recently introduce something that allows people...

to have fact-checking not affect the distribution of what shows up in their product.

So, okay, a bunch of people don't trust who the fact-checkers are.

All right, well, you can turn that off if you want.

But if the content violates some policy, like it's inciting violence or something like that, it's still not going to be allowed.

So I think that you want to honor people's preferences on that as much as possible.

But look, I mean, this is really difficult stuff.

I think it's really hard to know where to draw the line on what is fact and what is opinion because the nature of science is that nothing is ever 100% known for certain.

You can disprove certain things, but you're constantly testing new hypotheses and scrutinizing frameworks that have been long held.

And every once in a while, you...

throw out something that was working for a very long period of time and it's very difficult but um but i think that just because it's very hard and just because they're edge cases doesn't mean that you you should not try to give people what they're looking for as well let me ask about something you've faced in terms of moderation

I don't know that there's like a one size fits all answer to that.

I mean, I think we basically have the principles around, you know, we want to allow people to express as much as possible, but we have developed clear categories of things that we think are wrong that we don't want on our services and we build tools to try to moderate those.

So then the question is, okay, what do you do when a government says,