Zuckerberg to change Facebook radically

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will stand up for principles like free expression and encryption, even if it means facing a backlash. Report informs referring to CNN.

"This is the new approach, and I think it's going to annoy a lot of people. But frankly, the old approach was pissing off a lot of people too, so let's try something different," Zuckerberg said at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Utah on Friday.

The Facebook (FB) cofounder and CEO said his company's aim for a long time was to not do anything that would be deemed as "too offensive," but he is now changing that approach in the face of what he deems as excessive censorship.

"Increasingly we're getting called to censor a lot of different kinds of content that makes me really uncomfortable," Zuckerberg said, while acknowledging Facebook's responsibility to purge its platforms of content related to terrorism, child exploitation and incitement to violence.