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Facebook seeks regulator to deal with 'harmful' online content; Breton says idea 'not enough'

By Matthew Newman
  • 17 Feb 2020 10:51
  • 28 Feb 2020 05:19
Facebook said in a policy paper today that a new regulator may be needed to cope with rapid changes in the way people use the Internet to publish "harmful" online content, such as hate speech.

The company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg met EU Commissioners Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton today in

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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