Stepping into choppy waters for social media, Facebook chairman-ceo Mark Zuckerberg weighed in, saying Wednesday the platform’s criteria for removing content remains “imminent harm” — not harm “down the line.” But he told shareholders at the company’s annual meeting that the company continues to police hate speech that dehumanizes and incites violence.
It’s complicated, in other words. At the meeting, held virtually for the first time, Zuckerberg did not address the current controversy over President Donald Trump’s social media war against mail-in ballots, which some states in the grip of a pandemic have said they’ll use. Twitter has slapped a fact-check warning on Trump’s tweets claiming mail-in ballots result in rampant voter fraud, leading the president to ramp up his war on social media.
Zuckerberg said several times that, in the balance, he thinks of himself “as being on the side of giving people a...
It’s complicated, in other words. At the meeting, held virtually for the first time, Zuckerberg did not address the current controversy over President Donald Trump’s social media war against mail-in ballots, which some states in the grip of a pandemic have said they’ll use. Twitter has slapped a fact-check warning on Trump’s tweets claiming mail-in ballots result in rampant voter fraud, leading the president to ramp up his war on social media.
Zuckerberg said several times that, in the balance, he thinks of himself “as being on the side of giving people a...
- 5/27/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
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