“We unavoidably have to,” Clegg said to a question about whether Meta needed to moderate its platforms.
“Unless you want to do an Elon Musk and let anyone say anything — but that’s not the way we run Facebook and Instagram,” he continued.
Clegg pointed out how activists banned on Meta platforms for violating policies, such as Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson, were allowed to “run amok” on X and Telegram ahead of far-right riots that struck Britain this summer.
Meta would, he said, work with regulators in the U.K. and the European Union to implement new online content moderation rulebooks.
In another broadside at Musk’s platform, Clegg — who himself boasts hundreds of thousands of followers on X — called it a “tiny platform” that was designed for “elites.”
“It’s honestly not used by the vast majority of normal people around the world,” Clegg said of X.
“People go to X to start yelling at each other about current affairs and politics … it’s a tiny, elite, news-obsessed, politics-obsessed app. The vast, vast, vast majority of people join Facebook and Instagram because they for much more playful reasons.”