Facebook will remove all posts posted through President Donald Trump if they violate social platform standards, company Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said Tuesday, marking a deflection of Facebook’s past reluctance to content posted through elected executives.
“When the president violates our hate speech criteria or provides false data on voter suppression or coronavirus, he falls,” Sandberg told MSNBC in an interview, after the company was asked to attach to Trump’s speech before the November election.
Sandberg added that Facebook last week introduced a voting data center to provide accurate voter data on the election.
Last month, Facebook began adding tags to all posts shared through elected federal officials and presidential candidates, which also include official data on how to vote.
Trump’s Facebook message in May, in which he said that “when looting begins, the shooting begins” in reference to the Black Lives Matter protests, has sparked a strong public denunciation of the company’s leadership through its employees.
Facebook has been accused of not doing enough to store incorrect information on its platform in the run-up to the 2016 election.Facebook has been a vital channel for Russian-backed election interference that, according to the company’s own disclosure, included advertising value.about $100,000 connected to at least 470 “non-authentic” Facebook pages and accounts that are likely to operate from Russia.The company has moved sincerely to eliminate the coordinated un authentic behaviors of domestic and foreign actors, but has not tried to do the same with incorrect information or hate speeches shared through elected leaders or candidates for public office.In response to criticism, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the impression of doubling the company’s reluctance to moderate political discourse.In a USA Today editorial, Zuckerberg said he believed that “the most productive way to hold politicians accountable is to vote, and I think we deserve to accept it as true with the voter to vote for themselves.”
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