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Facebook is laying the groundwork to save President Donald Trump from his huge platform to call into question the effects of the 2020 general election, the New York Times reported.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and some of his most sensible delegates met to discuss the issue. According to the Times, one option is to put in place an “automatic switch” for more sensible political advertising after November 3 to minimize the threat of disseminating incorrect information online.
Facebook is also developing an action plan to determine whether Trump is the platform to verify to invalidate the effects of the election by claiming that the U.S. Postal Service. He’s lost track of mail order ballots or outdoor teams interfered with voting, according to the Times report. The company is also preparing to figure out how to react if Trump falsely claims on the site that he was re-elected.
Thursday’s progression underscores how incorrect national information is as vital a challenge as foreign misinformation, especially with regard to elections and the coronavirus pandemic.
Paul Barrett, deputy director of new York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told Business Insider in April that he had witnessed an explosion of incorrect national information and incorrect information in months.
Barrett also released a report last year detailing how disclosure and misinformation would play a role in the upcoming election. “In terms of volume, the incorrect information generated domestically now exceeds the malicious content of foreign resources and will almost be one thing in the next election,” the report says.
What complicates the issues this time is that one of the largest resources for election-related misinformation is in the Oval Office.
“The only way to lose this election is to rigged the election,” the president said this week. On Wednesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused to say whether Trump would settle for the effects of the election if he lost to Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
Trump also spent months undermining public confidence in mail voting, suggesting without evidence that an increase in mail voting opposite COVID-19 would lead to widespread voter fraud.
“Mail ballots cheat. People are cheating,” Trump said in April when asked if states deserve to increase absentee voting on the pandemic. “Mail ballots are very harmful to this country because they are cheaters. They’re going to get them. They are fraudulent in many cases.”
Trump and many of his senior officials and members of the family circle have voted by mail or tried to do so in recent years.
“They’re talking about sending 51 million ballots to anyone, you know, you know who’s going to get them,” the president said in “Hannity” Thursday night. “It’s a terrible thing. This is a fraudulent choice. Everybody knows, you don’t even want to know politics to realize.”
Trump refers to the approximately 51 million people living in 10 states and Washington, D.C., who will get their ballots by mail.
Nonpartisan scholars and experts have uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and millions of Americans vote by mail each year. Trump’s own crusade and Republican leaders are also discreetly encouraging postal and postal voting, fearing that the president’s claims will hurt Republicans by reducing voter turnout.
Alex Stamos, director of Stanford University’s Internet Observatory and former Facebook executive, told The Times that Trump had forced social media giants to deal with a situation where they “potentially had to treat the president as a bad actor” that could undermine public opinion. Faith. in the electoral process. “We don’t revel in that in America,” he said.
Earlier this year, Twitter took an unprecedented step in verifying the facts of several Trump tweets about the vote by mail. He also posted one of his tweets about George Floyd’s protests for violating corporate policy by glorifying violence.
Meanwhile, Facebook has been criticized for failing to respond to Trump’s arson and misleading messages about protests and elections. However, in July, he began adding labels to Trump’s messages by spreading false statements about the vote. The label urged users to “get official voting data on how to vote in the 2020 US election.”
Earlier this month, the company also deleted a message from Trump falsely claiming that young people are immune to COVID-19. Facebook said the post was deleted because it violated corporate policies that prohibit “harmful COVID misinformation.”