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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 5-7, 2020 A-5 The Park Record Zuckerberg speaks on free speech at Utah tech summit Silicon Slopes conference hosted the discussion ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a speech Friday in Utah that he doesn’t want his platform to be used to “rip society apart” but that at some point the social media company must stand up for free speech. Zuckerberg said the company’s upcoming steps to protect free expression are “going to piss off a lot of people,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The company has come under pressure to do more to clamp down on fake accounts, misinformation and other forms of misuse after Russian actors used Facebook and other social media platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections. The 2020 election will be a test of whether they’ve done enough. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been one of those critics, criticizing Facebook’s policy of not fact-checking politicians’ speech or ads the way it has outside parties fact-check news stories and other posts. “The last thing I want is for our products to be used to divide people or rip society apart in any kind of way,” said Zuckerberg during a speech in Salt Lake City. “But at some point, we’ve got to stand up and say, `No, we’re going to stand for free expression.’ Yeah, we’re going to take down the content that’s really harmful, but the line needs to be held at some point.” Zuckerberg told the audience at a technology conference called the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit that Facebook had used artificial intelligence and other tactics to try and detect and get rid of content that promotes ter- rorism and child trafficking or inciting violence. But he said Facebook has to draw a line about what constitutes censorship. “Increasingly, we’re getting called in to censor a lot of different kinds of content that makes me really uncomfortable,” Zuckerberg said. “It kind of feels like the list of things that you’re not allowed to say socially keeps on growing ... And I’m not really OK with that.” Zuckerberg said he has not done a good job of communicating to the world what the company’s core mission is, but that he now realizes his company doesn’t have that luxury anymore. After mixing up the name of the Utah city where Facebook is building a $1 million data center — he called it Eagle Rock and it’s actually Eagle Mountain — Zuckerberg quipped: “Let’s be real here. Communicating is not my best thing, all right?” Notorious Utah madam’s interview eludes historians Record of Rose Room owner was noted in shorthand ASSOCIATED PRESS Grand Opening OGDEN — Scholars at a Utah university are trying to unlock a mystery after discovering a nearly 70-year-old transcript of an interview with a notorious brothel owner that is written in a shorthand style that few people can read today. The interview was with madam Rossette Duccinni Davie, who ran the Rose Rooms brothel in Ogden with her husband in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, the location is home to the nightclub Alleged, the Standard-Examiner reported. The interview with former Standard-Examiner reporter Bert Strand was hidden inside a box of 1970s photos from the newspaper, said Sarah Langsdon, head of the Weber State University’s special collections. The pages could be a treasure trove of material for historians in Ogden, a city of about 88,000 located 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Salt Lake City. But there’s a problem: The 1951 transcription is written in a decades-old shorthand style that few people use today. “It’s definitely a lost art,” Langsdon said. Davie was considered Ogden’s most notorious madame — with the possible exception of Belle London, who was active from 1890 to 1914, Langsdon said. “Anyone we’ve ever interviewed who was alive remembers her,” Langsdon said of Davie. “She’s definitely a well-known figure in the history of Ogden.” It’s widely believed that city police and county sheriffs turned a blind eye to the brothel run by Davie and her husband, Bill Davie. Historian Val Holley has said they were likely police informants. Another theory holds that they paid a sheriff to look the other way, Langsdon said. Rose Davie, as she was known, pulled down $30,000 a month in her prime and withstood several prostitution charges before she was ultimately done in by a federal tax evasion charge, Langsdon said. Now, Weber State is hoping to find someone who can make sense of the lost interview notes. Anyone who is interested in helping can call 801-626-6540. “It’s probably been decades since anyone has used (shorthand),” Langsdon said. “But if we could find someone who can decipher these notes, it could be pretty fascinating.” Every day your position goes unfilled, you are losing revenue! The Park Record will get you the best local applicants—plus, we have digital options to help get the word out further. 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