Will Facebook’s content review turn social media app into ‘Big Brother?’

By James Langford

Published April 10, 2018 10:59pm ET

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Will Facebook’s content review turn social media app into ‘Big Brother?’ — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves a meeting with Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, on Capitol Hill this week. Zuckerberg testified Tuesday before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary committees. | (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike want Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to block some content from the social media platform he developed in a dorm room at Harvard.

They disagree on where to draw the line between appropriate and inappropriate, and Republican senators in particular aren’t sure they want employees in liberal-leaning Silicon Valley making the choice for some 2 billion users a month.

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