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 <[email protected]> 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. > " >
