Censorship: Facebook Pledges to Censor Election Downfall

[grarpamp]

https://www.ft.com/content/82ead3c3-774f-4b12-b7ed-e1c0bbf70261
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/517515-facebook-to-restrict-the-circulation-of-content-if-chaos-results-from

"
Facebook has said it will take aggressive and exceptional measures to
"restrict the circulation of content" on its platform if November's
presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic unrest.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company's
head of global affairs, said it had drawn up plans for how to handle a
range of outcomes, including widespread civic unrest or "the political
dilemmas" of having in-person votes counted more rapidly than mail-in
ballots, which will play a larger role in this election due to the
coronavirus pandemic. "There are some break-glass options available to
us if there really is an extremely chaotic and, worse still, violent
set of circumstances," Mr Clegg said, though he stopped short of
elaborating further on what measures were on the table. The proposed
actions, which would probably go further than any previously taken by
a US platform, come as the social media group is under increasing
pressure to lay out how it plans to combat election-related
misinformation, voter suppression and the incitement of violence on
the November 3 election day and during the post-election period.
"