Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t been able to get ahead of the problems that plague his creation. So now he’s trying to get ahead of regulation that might do the job he hasn’t been able to.

Over the weekend, Zuckerberg called for government and regulators to play a “more active role” around harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. Those are all issues Facebook hasn’t been able to corral even as it ropes in more users.

Zuckerberg’s ideas, published in a Washington Post op-ed, illustrate how anxious Facebook is to get a seat at the table as lawmakers hash out potential legislation that will affect its core business. Facebook and its Silicon Valley peers haven’t been the target of serious US regulation. But the landscape has shifted greatly since Zuckerberg claimed it was “crazy” to think fake news on Facebook affected the results of the 2016 US presidential election.

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