Yesterday, AOC posed a simple question to Mark Zuckerberg: “Will Facebook take down lies?” His answer was basically ‘no.’ So if we wanted to run ads saying Republicans in competitive primaries voted for the Green New Deal (an obvious lie), we’d “probably” not get in trouble, according to Mark.
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Zuckerberg’s answer means the Trump campaign can lie with impunity, and Facebook will have no problem taking their cash. And given Trump’s awful relationship with reality and truth, you can be sure those ads filled with lies are being prepared as we speak.
- Ads that say Medicare for All will cancel Medicare for seniors? Fair game.
- Ads that say the Green New Deal will ban meat? All good for Facebook.
- Ads that say climate change isn’t real? Totally. Fine.
You see where we’re going here. Trump can lie all he wants! That’s incredibly dangerous for our democracy.
Help us fight back with a $3 donation, because it’ll be up to us to correct the record when Facebook refuses.
Pa'lante,
Team AOC
Mark Zuckerberg faced a gruelling examination from the Democratic lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday, with questions over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Facebook’s reluctance to police political advertising. The Facebook CEO declined to disclose when he found out the company was harvesting and selling user data to influence elections. She also asked Zuckerberg about his 'dinner parties with far-right figures' and if at those meetings he addressed the popular rightwing theory that Facebook cracks down on conservative speech, a question Zuckerberg also dodged
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pressed Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg for answers during a House Financial Services Committee about when the social media giant will fact check posts shared on its platform. “You announced recently that the official policy of Facebook now allows politicians to pay to spread disinformation in 2020 elections and in the future. So I just want to know how far I can push this in the next year?” she asked Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO responded by saying there will be fact checks for posts that pose "imminent risk of harm."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about his company’s complex policies involving false information in political advertisements during a congressional hearing on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Facebook said it would allow politicians to run advertisements on its social networks even if they include false information, but this week, the company said that it would not allow anyone to run any content that could cause voter suppression. Ocasio-Cortez used her time during the hearing to emphasize the complexity and confusing nature of Facebook’s new policies.
Lawmakers and the Financial Services Committee grill Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over Libra cryptocurrency, advertising, civil rights, the 2020 elections, and privacy.
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