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Mark Zuckerberg struggles to curry favor with the EU, with skeptical lawmakers questioning Facebook's dominance and the spread of coronavirus misinformation

But lawmakers robustly challenged the Facebook CEO.On Saturday, Manfred Weber – the head of the European People's Party –to talk about the challenges Facebook poses for democracy. He publicly described the meeting as a "good talk" but, a spokesman confirmed, he expressed worries that Facebook isn't taking sufficient responsibility for its impact on democracy and the spread of misinformation.

He wrote: "The recent coronavirus crisis was yet another sad example where social media posts are amplified by un-transparent algorithms, with low efficient or inexistent fact-checkers. Misinformation is spreading rapidly and so is the panic among our citizens.

 

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