Amidst escalating rhetoric about alleged 'anti-conservative bias' on social media, Facebook has doubled down on its policies exempting (some) politicians from its ordinary fact-checking and from its hate speech rules. Facebook's policies amplify the harm that hateful politicians can do and are not necessary to advance its stated goal of ensuring that 'newsworthy' false or hateful comments are subject to robust reporting and debate.
Tilting the Playing Field
"Would it be acceptable to society at large to have a private company in effect become a self-appointed referee for everything that politiciansContinue reading
say? I don’t believe it would be." - Facebook's Nick Clegg
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