Mark Zuckerberg has admitted errors in the transmission of the New Zealand attack, but will not make any changes to Facebook Live.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, sparked wide public debate last month when he called on governments to seek broader regulation of digital technology companies. Technology companies "should not make as many important decisions about freedom of expression by ourselves," he said.

However, in an interview with ABC News released on Thursday the CEO of Facebook claimed that it would not implement fundamental changes to its platform live streaming despite the failure of the system to detect and stop the transmission of the mbadacre in a mosque in New Zealand.

The social network has already explained why its artificial intelligence was not able to detect the live broadcast of the far right terrorist. Consulted if a delay in your platform live broadcast would have limited the number of views received by the attack, admitted: "possibly in this case."

"But that would also fundamentally destroy what live streaming is for people. Most people stream live, you know, a birthday party or go out with friends when they can not be together, "said Zuckerberg.

"One of the magical aspects of live streaming is that it's bidirectional, so is not it?" So you're not just broadcasting, you're communicating and people are responding to comments. So if you were late, it would break that"he added.

The young businessman defended the measures taken by Facebook after the terrorist attacks, although he stressed that society must work more than ever to "amplify the good things people do, mitigate and eliminate as much as possible the negative aspects".

A little more than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which put Facebook at the center of a global controversy, Zuckerberg also expressed confidence in the US presidential election of 2020 and expanded his vision of privacy and the necessary regulations to avoid any interference from Russia in the upcoming elections..

"There have been several important elections since 2016 when the results were relatively clear in this respect," he said. "We have learned a lot since 2016, when our defense systems were way behind what was needed to defend us from foreign states trying to interfere."

However, the founder of the largest social network in the world could not guarantee that the same kind of disinformation campaigns would not be broadcast on his platform. "What I can guarantee is that [estados extranjeros] they will definitely try [de interferir en las elecciones presidenciales de 2020]. That's what we saw"Zuckerberg says.

"Our job is therefore to strengthen the defenses, make their work more difficult, and create good partnerships with other people in the industry and the intelligence community, so that we can have a good idea of what is happening and help keep it safe, "he added.

Facebook plans to invest more in security and protection in 2019 than the company's total revenue in 2012, when Facebook became a public company. That year, the company achieved a turnover of more than 5.1 billion USD.