LONDON: British lawmakers have demanded that Facebook should be subject to a compulsory code of ethics to confront the spread of fake news.

The UK parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said that Facebook and other big tech companies had been ineffective in stopping damaging content and disinformation on their platforms, according to agencies.

A report of the committee said Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg as a leader failed to take personal responsibility.

Committee Chairman Damian Collins said that the guiding principle of the ‘move fast and break things’ culture often seems to be that it is better to apologize than ask permission.”

He demanded radical shift in the balance of power between the platforms and the users saying that the age of inadequate self-regulation has to end.