Employees Ask Facebook to Reverse Policy on Political-Ad Fact Checking

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A group of Facebook employees asked the company to reverse its policy of exempting political candidates’ ads from its own fact-checking program, calling the controversial rules a betrayal of the social-media giant’s values.

A group of Facebook Inc. employees asked the company to reverse its policy of exempting political candidates’ ads from its own fact-checking program, calling the controversial rules a betrayal of the social-media giant’s values.

“Free speech and paid speech are not the same thing,” the employees said in an open letter to Facebook, which was posted on the company’s internal network. They argue that exempting candidates’ ads from fact checking “allows politicians to weaponize our platform by targeting people who believe that...

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All speech should be left up. If the company wants to debate a point that is acceptable. Pay employees to engage. Removing someone’s statement because FB disagrees with content is unconstitutional.

Take political adds off entirely

FB is a PUBLIC UTILITY millions use it daily to conduct business or obtain basic information, telephone numbers, confirm doctor appointments, make reservations, Pass a bill make FB a PUBLIC UTILITY. Boom! No more bias censoring. Vote KAG2020 save the USA

DeleteFacebook

I hope they have the resources and courage to quit working for this human scum. And, I hope users who still have accounts will delete them.

Delete Facebook!

... democracy.

I firmly agree with Mark Zuckerberg’s stance on the issue of free speech in general, and political free speech in particular. Voters must be properly and thoroughly informed so as to be able to make their choice accordingly. This is critical for the proper functioning of ...

Thankfully Zuckerberg is actually running the company and know what's at stake.

They will, in hope to bid for the Worlds Peoples Trust. But, the Donald J Trump Business Associate, Mark Zuckerberg will fail.😎

So who decides what the Truth is? Censoring

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This is what leads to censorship of the conservative side. When they get to decide 'truth', they'll mute anything they seem hurtful to the Left. Bank on it

So Facebook is the gatekeeper facts and can decide what I can and can’t see in ads. Who the fuck is Facebook to decide what is fact and what isn’t.

FakeNews to influence people's opinion

Ads bring money to facebook and twitter. You bring nothing. So, shut up.

They shouldn’t be fact checking anything.

Facebook Employees are much more ethical than Marc Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Why?

Glad to hear there may be Facebook employees who want to do the right thing. The issues need thought and discussion and action, not just Zuckerberg acting like a little boy.

Uhhh after getting grill last week I wouldn’t want to put my company in the middle of that mess. Smart move.

DeleteFacebook DeleteFacebookNow

Now the tables are turned. Facebook is cracking within.

Who the foreigners we let in to work at Facebook . Chinese commies, .Muslim jihads, Indians

Looks like our record low unemployment is about to go up a tad.

Somebody get that freaking guy a big boy haircut

So Zuck, what deal did you make with trump to let his lies get posted?

Facebook “It’s toasted.” MadMen Zuckerberg

Hold that L facebook 🙃

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