“Facebook is in a position of power,” says Jonathan Zittrain, the director of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society. “At some point Facebook will be asked to shut down a live feed to make sure something doesn’t go viral,” he says. The company “needs to be upfront about the decisions it’s making and the pressures under which it’s making them.”

Source: Is Facebook Ready to Be the World’s Live News Network? – Bloomberg