Activists rip Facebook's Zuckerberg over Trump comments

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Civil rights activists slammed as 'incomprehensible' Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's justification for allowing incendiary comments by President Donald Trump about violence and voter suppression on the social network.

ZUCKERBERG. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about the new Facebook News feature at the Paley Center For Media on October 25, 2019 in New York City. File photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP

The criticism came following a discussion involving the Facebook CEO and leaders of rights organizations to discuss the platform's hands-off policy on Trump's posts after Twitter flagged or reduced the visibility of similar comments. "He did not demonstrate understanding of historic or modern-day voter suppression and he refuses to acknowledge how Facebook is facilitating Trump's call for violence against protesters. Mark is setting a very dangerous precedent for other voices who would say similar harmful things on Facebook."disputing the company's position of refraining from moderating the president's posts.

Over the weekend, Zuckerberg said he believes Facebook"should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies."

 

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