\u201cFacebook cannot push away all the responsibility\u201d \u2014 European Commission Vice President Vera Jourov\u00e1<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cIts up to them to see the impact of their responsibility before we tell them so,\u201d the French policymaker added.<\/p>\n The pushback followed a full-court charm offensive by Zuckerberg to woo local lawmakers in his first trip to Brussels in early 2018 in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.<\/p>\n This time, the Facebook CEO focused on high-level policymakers, meeting with Margrethe Vestager, the regions competition chief, as well as V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1, the Commissions vice president in charge of fundamental rights and election integrity.<\/p>\n His outreach included the publication of suggestions on how to regulate online content, a hot topic for European officials, and claims, during his trip to the Munich Security Conference ahead of Brussels, that the tech giant would be willing to pay more tax to countries beyond the United States in proposed digital tax reforms that may be completed by the end of the year.<\/p>\n European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager | Christof Stache\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n Zuckerberg and senior Facebook executives say that they want governments to come up with new rules to police the online world, and that it should not be left to private firms to determine how much of the digital economy is run.<\/p>\n But with the European Union to unveil a raft of digital proposals later this week, many of which will touch on Facebooks core business, officials politely rebuffed many of these advances Monday, claiming the company must do more on its own to combat many of the regulatory challenges now confronting the company.<\/p>\n Brussels will publish new policies around artificial intelligence, the use of data and how the region will approach the global digital economy \u2014 efforts that will lead to years of hard-fought lobbying before final rules are passed.<\/p>\n \u201cFacebook cannot push away all the responsibility,\u201d Jourov\u00e1 said after her meeting with the tech boss. \u201cFacebook and Mr. Zuckerberg have to answer themselves a question: Who do they want to be as a company and what values do they want to promote?'\u201d<\/p>\n Wearing a blue suit and tie for his rounds of meetings inside the Commissions Berlaymont building in central Brussels, Zuckerberg told a small group of reporters before he met with EU officials that he wanted to find a way \u2014 laid out in recommendations on Monday \u2014 to work with authorities on a model for regulating social media platforms.<\/p>\n His idea would be for Facebook not to be treated like telecoms firms that just carry content, with no accountability for that material, nor like traditional publishers, which have control over such content. It comes amid a growing drumbeat on both sides of the Atlantic for social media companies to be held more responsible for what users posts online, including hate speech, terrorist content and other harmful material.<\/p>\n \u201cIts not for us to adapt to those companies, but for them to adapt to us\u201d \u2014 European Commissioner Thierry Breton<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cGiven that there are more than 100 billion pieces of content a day, and that were not generally producing the content, I think that that would be operationally unfeasible,\u201d Zuckerberg said, in reference to strict content rules for Facebook and others.<\/p>\n Despite Zuckerbergs whirlwind schedule \u2014 which was treated more like a state visit by a national leader than a series of meetings with a corporate executive \u2014 Commission officials remain overtly skeptical of Facebooks intentions.<\/p>\n Talking to reporters Monday, Breton dismissed Zuckerbergs suggestions on potential ways to regulate online content, saying they were \u201ctoo low in terms of responsibility and regulation [and] there is nothing on market power,\u201d in reference to Facebooks dominance over much of social media<\/p>\n Breton also dismissed Zuckerbergs proposal for a third status for Facebook that would fall between telecom provider and publisher while expressing skepticism at the idea of one single EU regulator. Taking the stage alongside the Facebook chief executive, the French official cut off the tech boss from speaking, something that Zuckerberg is not accustomed to.<\/p>\n \u201cIts not for us to adapt to those companies, but for them to adapt to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Like Google and Microsoft before it, Facebook has often misjudged how to interact with policymakers in Brussels.<\/p>\n Officials routinely gripe that Facebook executives either do not understand Europes priorities or do not take their complaints seriously \u2014 something that Nick Clegg, the United Kingdoms former deputy prime minister and former MEP, has tried to change since he took over as the companys chief global lobbyist in early 2019.<\/p>\n Read More \u2013 Source<\/p>\n [contf] [contfnew] [contfnewc] [contfnewc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark Zuckerberg came to Brussels looking to make friends.<\/p>\n B..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-1200814072-714x476.jpg\"\/)
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