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Several U.S. senators sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg with questions on Facebook’s role in protecting democracy, including upcoming elections, from misinformation. In the Tuesday letter, lawmakers said the social media platform played a role in the spread of “divisive, hateful, and violent online activity” during the 2020 presidential election. The letter also […]
Coming off a bruising scandal within the US involving political guide Cambridge Analytica utilizing its information to control voter behaviour, Fb pulled out all stops to get it proper in India’s 2019 basic elections. It managed to sail by way of the most important elections on the earth involving 900 million voters with no scratch, […]
Fb’s mother or father firm Meta mentioned late on Monday that it had shut down a “troll farm” run by the federal government of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega, who’s operating for re-election on Sunday. Meta mentioned they’d deleted a community of 937 Fb accounts, 140 pages, 34 teams, and 363 Instagram accounts operated by Ortega’s […]
Is there a “We’re falling aside?” button? Greater than three out of 4 Individuals suppose Fb is making society worse — powered partly by considerations of conspiracy theories being unfold on the platform, a brand new ballot has discovered. The CNN ballot released Wednesday discovered that 76 % of US adults consider Fb makes society […]
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What Role Should Mark Zuckerberg Play in U.S. Elections?
Tim Hartwell
January 6, 2022
Jan. 6, 2022 4:40 pm ET Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Nick Wass/Associated Press In “No Facebook Funding for Elections” (op-ed, Dec. 31), Tarren Bragdon and Joe Horvath endorse a ban on private funding for public election administration. The problem they target—partisan spending by public officials—may be real, but their proposed ban is a significant […]