WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts
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Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing the pandemic to a man-made virus.
  • @Ensign_CrabEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    Facebook happily serves misinformation to its users because it drives engagement.

  • @ZombiepirateEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    So the government asked Facebook to be more diligent in their moderation and remove (some) lies that lead to more people dying from a preventable disease, and FB complied of their own accord.

    I’m not one to ever defend Facebook, but… good?

    What is the issue here?

  • Designate
    -4•1 year ago

    As much as we need to tackle people spreading BS, removing content on the whims of a Govt request is something we be very concerned about, even corporate pressure to remove content is concern.

    • BuckFigotstheThird
      13•1 year ago

      Telling a company, “Hey, quit disseminating lies about life threatening stuff” is not a “whim”.

    • @ashok36
      11•1 year ago

      There’s a pretty big difference between asking a company to remove misinformation and ordering them to do so via court order or at the point of a gun. At the end of the day, Facebook agreed with the government that the content was harmful and/or broke their TOS.