英格兰银行行长安德鲁·贝利敦促社交媒体公司对其平台上的犯罪活动承担更大责任。
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey urged social media companies to take greater responsibility for criminal activity on their platforms.
贝利周三在曼谷举行的国际货币基金组织年会期间发表讲话时表示，除非“大型科技平台”停止发布误导性和欺诈性内容，否则社交媒体将削弱信任并损害社会。
Speaking at an event at the International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Bangkok on Wednesday, Bailey said social media risks undermining trust and damaging society unless “the big technology platforms” stop publishing misleading and fraudulent content.
他在讨论金融欺诈时将焦点转向了社交媒体。贝利本人也曾遭遇网络欺诈。6月份，与诈骗网站相关的假冒图像出现，显示他正与英国改革党领袖奈杰尔·法拉奇发生冲突。
His intervention came during a discussion of financial fraud in which he shifted the focus to social media. Bailey has personal experience of online fraud. In June, fake images linked to scam websites emerged showing him fighting Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
贝利表示，社交媒体平台既支持“好的、坏的以及极其丑陋和公然犯罪的可怕内容”。与英国的印刷媒体不同，平台对其网站上出现的内容不承担法律责任。结果导致出现“相当极端的立场”，即平台“几乎没有真正的法律责任”。他表示：“我们需要发展到一个大家都明白责任所在的世界，届时每个人都将成为解决问题的一部分。”
Social media platforms support everything from “the good, the bad, and the incredibly ugly and downright criminal and terrible,” Bailey said. Unlike the printed media in the UK, platforms are not legally responsible for what appears on their sites. The result has been “quite an extreme position” in which there is “no real liability to the platform.”“We need to evolve to a you know world where everybody understands responsibility, and everybody is then a part of addressing the problem,” he said.
根据政府数据，欺诈是英国犯罪量最大的类别，占记录在案犯罪的46%。贝利说：“这部分原因在于技术，但也在于平台。”他补充道：“如果我们对货币失去信任，社会就无法正常运作。这也关乎对技术的信任。”
Fraud is the UK’s highest volume crime category, accounting for 46% of crimes recorded, according to government figures. “That’s partly the technology, but it’s also the platforms,” Bailey said. “If we don’t have trust in money, we don’t operate as a society. It’s also about trust in technology.”
他指出，仅靠事后补偿来帮助受害者是不够的，因为这意味着未能“采取保持信任所需的最重要步骤”。
He argued that it was not enough simply to use compensation after the event to help victims, as that means failing to “take the most important steps you need to do to preserve trust.”
贝利敦促社交媒体公司成为解决方案的一部分，因为“仅靠金融无法完成此事，考虑到目前被使用的媒体形式”。他还说：“我们已经明确表示，我们都是在同一条船上。提供技术平台的公司、家喻户晓的名字，你们必须成为这一行动的一部分。”
He urged social media companies to be part of the solution, because it “cannot be done by finance alone, given the media that are being used now.”“So we’ve deliberately said, we’re all in this together. The companies providing the tech platforms, the household names, you’ve got to be part of this.”