Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook will add warning labels and prompts to political posts that violate its policies, the platform’s CEO announced Friday afternoon.
The move, part of a review of the platform’s policies before the 2020 election, echoes actions Twitter has taken against misinformation in political speech.
The platform has flagged three tweets of President Donald Trump: keeping his posts up but including a warning. On May 26, Twitter applied labels on two Trump tweets about mail-in voting, which promoted baseless and false claims about the risk of fraud. Three days later, the platform hid a Trump tweet because it “glorified violence.” Most recently, a tweet about Washington D.C. protesters Read more…
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