Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media platform will address some of the challenges in the 2020 elections. This includes labeling politicians' posts that violate Facebook's policies.
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"A handful of times a year, we leave up content that would otherwise violate our policies if the public interest value outweighs the risk of harm. Often, seeing speech from politicians is in the public interest, and in the same way that news outlets will report what a politician says, we think people should generally be able to see it for themselves on our platforms," said Mark Zuckerberg.
"We will soon start labeling some of the content we leave up because it is deemed newsworthy, so people can know when this is the case," he added.
Here are other changes that were included in the announcement.
Fighting voter suppression:
Posts that discuss voting will be labeled by Facebook with a link to its Voting Information Center. "Elections Operations Center" will be used by the company to quickly respond and remove false claims about polling conditions.
Providing authoritative information on voting during the pandemic:
To ensure that people will be able to locate factual information about when and how they can vote, Facebook will be creating a Voting Information Center. The new feature will show up on Instagram and Facebook over the coming months.
Regulating hateful content in ads:
The social media platform said it will be tightening up rules around divisive content ads that will allow the expansion of its policy to allow claims that people from the specific national region, race, ethnicity, caste, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, immigration status, or gender identity are a threat to the health, physical safety, and survival of other individuals.
