(2018-10-24) Facebooks Former Security Head Making Facebook Moderate Content Will Cement Its Dominance

Facebook's former security head: making Facebook moderate content will cement its dominance. Alex Stamos stepped down as CSO for Facebook in August, after a career in which he rather fearlessly and bluntly warned about deficiencies in Facebook's security

Stamos is now at Stanford University's "Information Warfare group" where he's leading interdisciplinary teams "studying the misuse of technology" (they're producing some pretty alarming warnings).

In a wide-ranging interview with MIT Tech Review, Stamos talks about the problems of deputizing Facebook and the other platforms to police the speech that their users post, whether it be in the name of preventing harassment or hate-speech

Instead of giving Facebook more power, Stamos recommends other measures, like "advertising transparency" and federal legislation to limit ad targeting.