Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in political ads

Facebook staff demand Zuckerberg limit lies in political ads

Josh Constine@joshconstine / 3:48 pm EDT • October 28, 2019

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/facebook-employees-vs-ad-lies/

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Submit campaign ads to fact checking, limit microtargeting, cap spending, observe silence periods or at least warn users. These are the solutions Facebook  employees put forward in an open letter pleading with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leadership to address misinformation in political ads.

The letter, obtained by The New York Times’Mike Isaac, insists that “Free speech and paid speech are not the same thing . . . Our current policies on fact checking people in political office, or those running for office, are a threat to what FB stands for.” The letter was posted to Facebook’s internal collaboration forum a few weeks ago.

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