Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in an interview with CNBC news that the wrong information is spreading faster than the facts on social media.
"When you let people communicate you have to deal with the fact that some very exciting incorrect things can spread very quickly compared to the truth," Gates said in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin and broadcast on Tuesday. ".
Gates said that facts are slowly spread on social media compared to "negative" wrong information, which makes the task of companies like Facebook and Twitter difficult to balance.
The American billionaire said in the interview, "It is extremely difficult for these media companies to follow everything said on their platforms and eliminate the wrong things completely, get rid of those things or slow their spread."
He added that what complicates the monitoring of the wrong information on Facebook is his decision for 2019 to encrypt direct messages to WhatsApp users.
"Some messages on their platforms are not seen by these companies because of the WhatsApp encryption," Gates said.
"In order not to take any responsibility, they made it vague, you know, whatever the problems - whether vaccine and child pornography - are now unable to interfere in these things," he added.
Gates touched on the comments of Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, the controversial electric car maker, about the Corona virus, and he believes that Musk should take care of his own affairs and not speak about what he does not know and master.
"Elon's position as an entrepreneur might make him think that he can publish gruesome comments," Gates said.
He added that "Mask is not one of the people of vaccines, as he makes a great electric car, and his missiles work well, so he allowed himself to say these things, I hope he does not confuse the areas that he is not good at."