Facebook to remove false posts about 2020 census after civil rights demands

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Facebook says it's adding a rule against spreading misinformation about the 2020 US census, treating such posts with extra scrutiny out of fear they could disrupt the count.

. Murphy has recommended other changes at Facebook, such as broadening the company’s definition of what counts as white nationalism and making it easier for content reviewers to see the context of a post before judging it.

Murphy told NBC News that it was difficult to determine whether Facebook would be able to address census misinformation “because the threat is unknown.” Neil Potts, a Facebook public policy director, said in an interview that resources to fight census misinformation would not be a problem, citing the 30,000 people the company has working on content review. “We’re treating the census as a top-tier election,” he said.

 

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PiperPerabo Wow. So they finally decide to do the right thing. Pigs are flying.

How will they know what is true about the census and what is not? MSNBC? CNN? LOLOL!

That's great. Now run a cull on Pascale's troll and bots. Run a cull on his political sites. Check out the sites pushing the Dem candidates that did not stand out in the debates. The trolls are saying they won. This is propaganda lies to steer the lazy who don't fact check.

Words are cheap. I'll believe it when it actually happens.

Thank you Facebook. Hope it works

How about Facebook stops putting their thumb on the political scale, as Big Tech companies have no right to be making arbitrary choices that will affect future legislation and voting nationwide?

facebook is just BEGGING to be regulated & broken up! sherylsandberg & MarkZuckerman lean so far left it's a wonder they can stand. This is the modern day Nazi book burning happening in the tech world. No speech but THEIR speech is allowed.

To protect one's privacy on Facebook, stay off of Facebook.

The move places Facebook in a position of referee in the year-long effort with wide political ramifications. Civil rights groups and the U.S. Census Bureau had been asking tech companies, including Facebook to step up their fight against false information.

I believe FB about as much as I believe Trump: I don't.

In other words they don’t want the truth getting out!

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