Facebook will take an array of measures to “restrict the circulation of content” if the November 3 US presidential election devolves into chaos and unrest, according to a Tuesday report by the Financial Times.
Former UK member of parliament Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president for global affairs and communications risk management, told the Financial Times that risk management is one of the company’s utmost concerns related to the upcoming presidential election.
Facebook has yet to expound on Clegg’s comments.
Liberal Democrat Party leader Nick Clegg and his wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez leave the the Hall Park Centre after voting in Sheffield, England, Thursday May 7, 2015, as Britain takes to the polls in a General Election.
US President Donald Trump has increased his use of other online platforms – like YouTube – after Twitter moved to flag several of his tweets, including one expressing his support of shooting American citizens as a response to looting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, earlier this year.
A tweet issued by Donald Trump on May 29, 2020 at 12:53 a.m. EST. It was flagged on the same day by Twitter for “glorifying violence.”
Facebook was criticized for its slowness to act by major outlets such as CNN Business, which ran the headline “Mark Zuckerberg silent as Trump uses Facebook and Instagram to threaten ‘looting’ will lead to ‘shooting.’”
“These changes reflect what we’ve learned from our elections work over the past four years and the conversations we’ve had with voting rights experts and our civil rights auditors,” he clarified.
One of these changes is a policy that prohibits “new political ads in the week before the election.”
“We don’t have experience with that in the United States,” added Stamos, who presently serves as director of Stanford University’s Internet Observatory. Stamos was Facebook’s security chief between 2015 and 2017, during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which some 87 million users had their personal information collected and used, most without their knowledge or consent, by companies intending on helping candidates like Trump shape elections in their favor.
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