Facebook is going to ban all misinformation about voting/how to vote, @josephmenn reports. There was a lot of that in the last election (on Twitter, too, with people falsely saying you could text to vote in the US) and it came under scrutiny in Congresshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-election-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-ban-misinformation-on-voting-in-upcoming-u-s-elections-idUSKCN1MP2G9 …
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Just off the phone with Facebook, have a little clarification: The company already banned misinformation on dates, times and locations for voting. Now ban extends to false methods of voting (like falsely saying you can vote by text) and false info on whether your vote will count.
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Replying to @sarahfrier
I wasn't aware that happened. When did they do that?
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Replying to @RMac18
That was apparently a policy before the 2016 election happened (but obviously wasn't enough to stop things like the text-to-vote misinformation)
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Replying to @sarahfrier @RMac18
If this was a policy, it was well-hidden!
$fb has said repeatedly that misinformation alone doesn’t violate their policies. I don’t recall them mentioning this exception (Unless I missed something).1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @dseetharaman @RMac18
It's in the "coordinating harm" section https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/coordinating_harm … But I also don't remember when it started!
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Replying to @sarahfrier @dseetharaman
I'm browsing a web archive of FB's Community Standards from Oct. 31, 2016, and I don't see anything like that? https://web.archive.org/web/20161031234222/https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/# …
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Our Community Standards today are more detailed than they were in 2016, but we had an internal policy to address this. Since then, we've made it clear how we define voter fraud and suppression https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/coordinating_harm …
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