Politicians aren’t allowed to lie about voting on Facebook anymore.
This article is part of the, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech.
A showdown between Facebook and President Donald Trump looks like it just became inevitable. On Friday, the social network announced a number of new content moderation policies that chip away at the company’s long-standing practice of giving politicians free rein to post, or advertise, virtually anything they want.
The policy changes also come on the heels of another decision by Facebook to more strictly moderate politicians’ posts. Last week, the platform an ad from the Trump campaign that included an upside-down red triangle, which Nazis once used as a symbol to mark political prisoners in concentration camps.
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