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In a new letter to its leader on the eve of the first presidential debate, Biden’s crusade criticized Facebook for its inability to respond to false accusations of voting in the United States.
In the scathing letter, published through Axios, Biden’s crusade manager Jen O’Malley Dillon met in particular a disturbing video message that the Trump crusade shared on Facebook and Twitter last week.
In the video, the president’s son claims that his father’s conflicting political parties “plan to upload millions of fraudulent polls that can simply cancel their vote and void the election” and asks supporters to “enlist now” in an “Trump election army. “”security operation”. These false statements seem to have encouraged some Trump supporters, who plan to remain in polling places and polling stations, a form of voter intimidation that would likely constitute a federal crime.
When Biden’s crusade (along with many others) reported the video to Facebook, the company stated that the content would not be removed, highlighting its small discrete voting data labels that appear alongside all messages similar to the 2020 U. S. election. Twitter with a similar tag.
“We are confident that the video tag, buried in the most sensitive part on the right of the screen, where a lot of audience will be lost, dispels any concerns,” O’Malley Dillon wrote in the letter to Mark Zuckerberg.
“No company that considers itself a force for the intelligence of democracy and who says it takes electorate suppression seriously would allow this harmful rubbish to spread to millions of people. Deleting this video has been the simplest of calls according to your policies, so far it remains in position today. “
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In the letter, O’Malley Dillon also cites the president’s own repeated attempts to undermine national confidence in the 2020 elections with unfounded lies in the voting process, which is already under pressure this year due to the pandemic.
Instead of adopting a company technique to restrict the scope of election-related misteulation through the president and his supporters, Facebook has remained largely un visitord. The platform is more comfortable promoting its electoral crusade and other politically unbiased efforts to inform and mobilize voters. Facebook obviously expects these measures to compensate for its current role in the president’s own spread of national mistakes, but given the magnitude of what is happening, and their persistent 2016 disorders, this does not seem likely.
“As you say, voting is the voice. ” Facebook has pledged not to allow this voice to drown through a typhoon of misinformation, yet it has failed at every opportunity to fulfill that commitment,” O’Malley Dillon wrote, adding that Biden’s crusade would denounce failures. “in the remaining 36 days until the election.
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