Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in an interview airing Thursday he's "confident" about the 2020 elections as the social media giant has "learned a lot" since 2016, but he wouldn't guarantee that there would be no disinformation campaigns on his company's platforms this time around.
"Because there have been a number of major elections since 2016, where the results have been relatively clean on this front. We've learned a lot since 2016, where, obviously, we were behind where we needed to be on defenses for nation states trying to interfere," Zuckerberg told ABC "Good Morning America" anchor George Stephanopoulos.
He said, however, that he can guarantee that there will be those who are "definitely going to try" to spread disinformation.
"Our job is to make the defenses stronger and stronger, to make it harder for them to do what they're doing and to build the right partnerships with other folks in the industry and in the intelligence community, so that way, together, we can get a good sense of what is going on out there and help keep this safe," he said.
Facebook plans to spend more on safety and security this year than it brought in as total revenue in 2012, when it went public and brought in $5.1 billion in revenue, Zuckerberg said.
He also defended Facebook's actions after terror attacks, including the deadly mosque shootings in New Zealand, were livestreamed for several minutes before the feed was taken down, but he still does not want to implement time delays on his platform, as "it would also fundamentally break what livestreaming is for people."
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