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Facebook is laying the groundwork to save President Donald Trump from his huge platform to question the effects of the 2020 general election, the New York Times reported.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and some of his senior assistants have come together to discuss the matter.One option, according to the Times, is to put in place an “automatic switch” to prevent political advertising after November 3 to minimize the threat of incorrect information being disseminated online.
Facebook is also developing an action plan to determine whether Trump is the platform to be verified to invalidate the effects of elections by claiming that the US Postal Service is not the only one in the world to do so.But it’s not the first time He has lost track of the mail order ballots or that outdoor teams interfered with the vote, according to the company is also preparing to figure out how to react if Trump falsely claims on the site that he was re-elected.
Thursday’s progression underscores how incorrect national information has as vital a challenge as incorrect foreign information, especially with regard to elections and the coronavirus pandemic.
Paul Barrett, deputy director of New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, told Business Insider in April that he had noticed an explosion of incorrect national information and incorrect information in months.
Barrett also released a report last year detailing how disclosure and incorrect information would play a role in the upcoming elections.”In terms of volume, the incorrect information generated at the national point now exceeds the malicious content of foreign resources and will almost be one thing in the next election,” the report says.
To complicate the issues this time, is that one of the biggest resources of incorrect election information is in the Oval Office.
“The only way to lose this election is to rigged the election,” the president said this week.White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused to say Wednesday whether Trump would settle for the effects of the election if he lost to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Trump also spent months undermining public confidence in mail voting, suggesting without evidence that an increase in mail voting opposed to COVID-19 would lead to widespread voter fraud.
“The ballots by mail, they cheat. People are cheating,” Trump said in April when asked if states deserve to increase the number of absentee voters by the pandemic.”Mail ballots are very harmful to this country because they are cheating.They’re going to get them. They are fraudulent in many cases.”
Trump and many of his senior officials and members of the family circle have voted by mail or tried to do so in recent years.
“They’re talking about sending 51 million ballots to anyone, you know, you know who’s going to get them,” the president said in “Hannity” Thursday night.”It’s a terrible thing. This is a fraudulent choice. Everybody knows, you don’t even want to know politics to locate you.”
Trump referring to the approximately 51 million people living in 10 states and Washington, D.C., who will get their ballots in the mail.
Experts and nonpartisan studies have not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud, and millions of Americans vote by mail each year.Trump’s own crusade and Republican leaders are also discreetly encouraging postal and postal voting, fearing that the president’s claims will harm Republicans by cutting electoral turnout.
Alex Stamos, director of Stanford University’s Internet Observatory and former Facebook executive, told The Times that Trump has forced social media giants to face a situation in which they “potentially have to treat the president as a bad actor” that could undermine the public.trust, in the electoral process.” We don’t revel in this in the United States,” he said.
Earlier this year, Twitter took an unprecedented step in verifying the facts of several of Trump’s tweets about mail voting.He also published one of his tweets about George Floyd’s protests about violating corporate politics by glorifying violence.
Meanwhile, Facebook has been criticized for not responding to Trump’s incendiary and misleading messages about protests and elections; however, in July, he began adding tags to Trump’s messages spreading false statements about the vote.data on how to vote in the 2020 U.S. election.”
Earlier this month, the company also deleted a message from Trump falsely stating that young people were immune to COVID-19.Facebook said the post was removed because it violated company policies that prohibit “harmful COVID misinformation.”