Facebook still committed to expanding Internet access

“We don’t want people that are doing that stuff on Facebook”, he said.

Zuckerberg said if Facebook has the opportunity to work with the government to make sure terrorists aren’t using the service they will. The company won’t, however, support a backdoor or the FBI’s current stance with Apple.

He noted that over 4 billion people lack access to the Internet, reported Reuters.

Mr Zuckerberg indicated that Facebook would not seek to revive the free mobile internet service for India.

He simply shrugged off when asked about his company’s true motive for its internet.org, which is an umbrella organization behind the Free Basics program and other projects. Free Basics is a service that offers free internet access in partnership with telecommunications providers and, while Facebook hoped it would lead to more users joining the social network, there was a strong backlash in India. “With Internet.org we believe everyone should have access to the internet”, Mr Zuckerberg said. “And now it’s really becoming video”, said Zuckerberg.

“Every country is different”, said Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg was however quizzed on why he didn’t use a nonprofit vehicle for the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative, leading to the charge that it was a massive tax dodge.

VIrtual reality (VR) is integral to the Facebook experience of the future, with the company’s early tests around 360 degree videos already generating more than one million views each day.

Today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg weighed in, extending his support to Apple in the matter. “If you think about not just sharing a small 2D video but sharing a whole scene and not just sharing it at current resolutions but sharing it (in high resolution for virtual reality.) I think this is going to be one of the killer apps for 5G networks”.

Elsewhere during his MWC appearance, Zuckerberg spoke of the importance of Facebook’s continued drive into video and its expansion into Facebook Live streaming. “If there’s any content that’s promoting terrorism or sympathizing with ISIS we take that off the service, take those people off the service”.

Later the Facebook CEO said that companies similar to Facebook have a responsibilty to aid in fighting terrorism, but trying to get around encryption was another story.

On artificial intelligence, which he described as an advanced form of “pattern recognition”: “One of the most incredible examples I heard recently was having an AI which can now detect skin cancer”, he said. At the Samsung conference, he called virtual reality, “the most social platform”.