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Facebook will not moderate Donald Trump’s posts if he runs in the next US election

Facebook will not apply fake content moderation filters to Donald Trump’s posts if he is running in the 2024 presidential election. Font: EFE/Unsplash | Photographer: Diksha Paharia

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Targetparent company behind instagram, whatsapp D facebookhe was about to make one of his biggest mistakes in years. The company has confirmed to its employees that they will not be checking the positions of future presidential candidates in elections in USA in 2024. Of course, this includes the controversial ex-president Donald Trump If you are planning to apply for this process.

According to the network CNNcompany under management Mark Zuckerberg He sent an email to his staff responsible for verifying the authenticity of posts on his main social network. In this communication, the management of the company emphasized that “political speech is not subject to fact-checking” as an argument not to moderate the content they publish.

Meta and its ambiguous attitude towards political content

According to the report, Target takes for “political discourse” all those “words spoken by the politician, as well as photographs, videos or other content that is clearly identified as being created by the politician or his campaign”. Consequently, Trump may publish any content in facebook if you choose to stand for election while such content is intended to promote your candidacy or party. The platform’s filters to check the validity of what is published will not affect you.

Of course, this has already created huge problems in the past, when during the 2020 US presidential election Trump I had a free letter to distribute fake news keep advancing your political path. This freedom granted by the platform even led to sad episodes in the history of this people, such as an attack on Capitol from Washington.which would have started because a political leader shared messages of hate and violence on his social media account.

Donald Trump
Despite what happened with the storming of the Capitol, Facebook will return control of his account to Donald Trump if he runs for president in 2024. | Font: AFP

New controversy looms for Meta-Facebook

Oh sure Trump was banned facebook in 2021, when it was revealed that the politician used his account to incite his supporters to participate in the assault Capitol after the election results showed Joe Biden as the new President of the United States, Target He plans to get his profile back if he formally announces his candidacy in the 2024 elections.

“If the former president Trump makes a clear and public statement that he is running for office, he will be considered a politician in accordance with our program policy.”indicates corporate mail sent to employees Target took the chain CNN.

On the other hand, Twitter He is also considering returning his account to the former president if he decides to run in the next presidential election as part of the new administration’s speech. Elon Musk that it ensures that any opinion, no matter how controversial, can be shared on the platform.

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