MARK ZUCKERBERG'S 2018 GOAL OF REDUCING ABUSE ON FACEBOOK

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook on Thursday, 4^th January wrote a post listing what he will do this year (2018). 
Zuckerberg listed some challenges Facebook is currently facing including abuse on the platform and error in policy implementation.

Facebook has a big role to play in global diversity and chaos. 




The platform is one of the commonest channels of abuse to individuals, hence there is need to enforce its policies to curtail the rate of abuse of the social network and its users. “My personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing these important issues. We won’t prevent all mistakes or abuse, but we currently make too many errors enforcing our policies and preventing misuse or our tools. If we are successful this year then we’ll end 2018 on a much better trajectory” Zuckerberg said.

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Zuckerberg must have his decision on events of 2017, which involved facebook a number of times including testifying against Congress in 2017 on Russian interference in U.S presidential election, and they later created stricter rules for political Ads.

Zuckerberg said “This may not seem like a personal challenge on its face, but I think I'll learn more by focusing intensely on these issues than I would by doing something completely separate. These issues touch on questions of history, civics, political philosophy, media, government, and of course technology. I'm looking forward to bringing groups of experts together to discuss and help work through these topics. For example, one of the most interesting questions in technology right now is about centralization vs decentralization. A lot of us got into technology because we believe it can be a decentralizing force that puts more power in people's hands. (The first four words of Facebook's mission have always been "give people the power".) Back in the 1990s and 2000s, most people believed technology would be a decentralizing force.  But today, many people have lost faith in that promise. With the rise of a small number of big tech companies — and governments using technology to watch their citizens — many people now believe technology only centralizes power rather than decentralizes it. There are important counter-trends to this --like encryption and cryptocurrency -- that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands. But they come with the risk of being harder to control. I'm interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of these technologies, and how best to use them in our services. This will be a serious year of self-improvement and I'm looking forward to learning from working to fix our issues together” He said.

The Facebook CEO unlike other years in the past has decided not to fix his personal problem but the entire social world.