Biden slams Facebook for letting Trump run wild and demands policy changes in open letter – By Taylor Hatmaker (Techcrunch) / June 12 2020
As Facebook continues to shrink from responsibilities that would see the company moderating political speech, Joe Biden has apparently had enough.
The presumptive Democratic nominee launched a campaign of sorts against Facebook leadership Thursday, with an open letter slamming Facebook’s decisions and a catchy hashtag, #MoveFastFixIt — a play on the company’s much maligned early slogan, “Move fast and break things.”
Folks, we saw in 2016 what can happen when social media platforms are left unchecked and allow disinformation to run rampant. It puts the very integrity of our elections at risk.
We simply cannot let it happen again in 2020.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 11, 2020
In the broadside against the social network, Biden calls on his supporters — and perhaps more broadly, Facebook’s critics — to demand the platform stop promoting “fake news” (a favorite term of President Trump, applied differently here), move quickly to remove viral misinformation, act against content that could suppress the vote and to stop PACs and candidates from relying on Facebook ads to “spread lies,” particularly within two weeks of the election.
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