WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts
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Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing the pandemic to a man-made virus.
  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    So the government asked Facebook to be more diligent in their moderation and remove (some) lies that lead to more people dying from a preventable disease, and FB complied of their own accord.

    I’m not one to ever defend Facebook, but… good?

    What is the issue here?

  • Designate@lemmy.letthewookiee.win
    59·
    1 year ago

    As much as we need to tackle people spreading BS, removing content on the whims of a Govt request is something we be very concerned about, even corporate pressure to remove content is concern.

    • ashok36@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      There’s a pretty big difference between asking a company to remove misinformation and ordering them to do so via court order or at the point of a gun. At the end of the day, Facebook agreed with the government that the content was harmful and/or broke their TOS.