In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, major Vice Presidium Joe Biden's presidential coll is advancement the whimsical media mammoth to stop "amplifying untrustworthy content," saying it allows Presidium Donald Trump to spread hatefulness as well as misleading information.
The coll wants Facebook to fix the problems it says "pose a blackmail to determining as well as pearl elections." The mitzvah of recommendations includes fact-checking election-related material, particularly prosaic that goes viral; as well as to stop "allowing politicians to hibernate trailing paid misinformation." The coll chosen for a two-week periodicity vanward the November ballot where all political ads would be fact-checked vanward Facebook approves them. Finally, the coll wants Facebook to put into place "clear rules -- correlated to everyone, including Donald Trump -- that prohibit vaulting policies as well as lies approximate how to participate in the election.".
With less than 150 canicule until Ballot Day, the stakes couldn't be higher. We've got to fix Facebook to reassure our democracy as well as ensure pearl elections.
-- Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 11, 2020
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In response, Facebook said it would "protect political speech, planate when we strongly disagree with it." Facebook's response renowned that, two weeks ago, Trump issued an controlling order "directing Federal agencies to prevent whimsical media sites from enjoyable in activities like fact-checking political statements," as well as Biden's poise appears to ask for the opposite.
"Just as they have done with leaflet networks -- where the US government prohibits rejecting politicians' coll ads -- the people's elected roundup should set the rules, as well as we will marathon them," Facebook said.
Facebook has faced knifelike criticism for its hands-off fosse to posts on its platform from the presidium that nourish to violate its rules.
Zuckerberg said on May 29th that Facebook would not take any action disputing a column where Trump said "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," planate hindmost Twitter flagged a agnate post for "glorifying violence." Zuckerberg said Facebook's position was "that we should enable as numerous obit as possible unless it will relate portending smash-up of specific harms or dangers spelled out in articulated policies."
Facebook employees to staged a virtual walkout in protest of that decision, as well as Zuckerberg said on June 5th that Facebook would "review" its policies on speech that promotes violence.
"Real changes to Facebook's policies for their platform as well as how they enforce them are all-important to reassure disputing a repeat of the role that mendacity played in the 2016 election, as well as that continues to tirade our democracy today," Biden coll spokesperson Coins Russo said in a statement to The Verge.
An analysis by The New York Times uncork that Biden's coll spent some $5 million on Facebook ads in the indigenous partage of June, spending $1.6 million on June 4th alone, co-ordinate to Facebook records. That's three times the single-day record of the Trump campaign's Facebook spend, co-ordinate to the Times.
The Trump coll did not immediately reply to a appeal for voice-over Thursday.
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