What could happen to Facebook under a Joe Biden presidency, and should Zuckerberg be worried?

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It's no secret that Joe Biden isn't a fan of Facebook or its billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg. So what happens if he wins the White House? Legal experts say it could be facing a regulation shake-up.

By then, Biden could be waiting in the wings of the presidency.Newsweek

Carusone felt that"total revocation of Section 230 is unlikely" but noted it could soon be modified to establish more safeguards, and liability for breaking them. Well before the election cycle started to heat up, Facebook was already pitching its own version of regulation. A white paper in February conceded that the internet has made it easier to spread abusive or illegal content, including via social media networks.

"If Biden wins [an election under] circumstances where there's been interference and we have the same sort of issues we did after 2016 then there could definitely be the political will to revisit this whole thing," he said, referencing the legislation.

 

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