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Zuckerberg succumbs to pressure: "We'll review network policy on political content again" Israel today

2020-06-07T03:13:43.231Z


| Technology News"I know many of you think we should have tagged the president's posts in a certain way," the Facebook founder wrote to company employees • Thousands of workers opposed Zuckerberg's decision to support Trump Will re-examine a political post. Zuckerberg Photo:  AP Mark Zuckerberg announced over the weekend that Facebook will rethink the policy of political posts. This, after social network work...


"I know many of you think we should have tagged the president's posts in a certain way," the Facebook founder wrote to company employees • Thousands of workers opposed Zuckerberg's decision to support Trump

  • Will re-examine a political post. Zuckerberg

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    AP

Mark Zuckerberg announced over the weekend that Facebook will rethink the policy of political posts. This, after social network workers announced that they were sitting as long as the CEO of the company did nothing about US President Donald Trump's publications, in light of the US riots in response to the murder of an African-American citizen George Floyd by a police officer.

"I know many of you think we should have tagged the president's posts in a certain way," Zuckerberg wrote, referring to his decision not to remove Trump's incriminating Twitter content, which included the sentence: "When the looting begins, the shooting begins."

Zuckerberg added, "We are about to look at possible options for dealing with violations or partial violations of our policies. Our current policy is that if the content is actually inciting violence, then the right action is to remove that content - not allow people to continue to see it." 

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Internal documents from Facebook show that thousands of workers opposed Zuckerberg's decision to support Trump, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Photo: Reuters

Meanwhile, the social network has announced that they will begin to flag and block ads from government media bodies to prevent US 2020 elections, and even block them. cyber security facebook.

facebook is under review since the last presidential election, when attempts were exposed foreign interference and influence because Russia, affair Cambridge analytics and political influences from outside the US, such as Hbrkzit UK.

Source: israelhayom

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