Mark Zuckerberg should pay for what he's doing to democracy, Hillary Clinton says

'We are getting warning signals all the time about what is happening right now and how it is likely to affect our next election'

Hillary Clinton said that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, should "pay a price" for the company’s role in eroding democracy in the US and around the world.

The former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate was speaking at the screening of the Netflix documentary, The Great Hack, about the role Facebook and its data sharing with Cambridge Analytica perpetuated misinformation during the 2016 election to undermine her campaign.

And Mrs Clinton warned that it is likely to happen again in 2020.

“We are getting warning signals all the time about what is happening right now and how it is likely to affect our next election,” she was quoted as saying at the screening.

Facebook has said that it will not fact check political advertisements run on its platform, despite criticism.

Though Facebook has taken steps to deal with misinformation on its platform, a recent report by the New York Times found that Russian hackers were testing new methods of misinformation in certain countries in Africa, where regulations are much less robust. Experts who spoke to the paper said that they expect the techniques Russia is using in Africa to be deployed during the 2020 presidential election in the US.

The platform was used to spread misinformation that incited genocide in Myanmar and riots against Muslims in Sri Lanka.

Bloomberg reported in 2017 that Facebook staff worked to support political campaigns like the far-right German party AfD, Andrzej Duda in Poland, and the presidential campaign of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.

Critics have taken aim at Facebook for buying up other popular apps to prevent competition.

Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion and Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion, among several other companies.

Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has proposed breaking up large tech companies as part of her platform.

Facebook announced today that it will be rebranding as FACEBOOK, similar to the move Google made in 2015 when it announced its parent company Alphabet, as a way to differentiate between the many products nested under its brand.