Censorship: Facebook Pledges to Censor Election Downfall

[Karl]

Facebook's behavior stayed quiet until legitimized.

Editor's note: groups speak of more when held with value.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 4:44 PM grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> "
>
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