Facebook with the recent riots in Chapters and demonstrations in some countries of the Middle East, has seen more often than he would have liked, its policy of censorship and management of political content often attacked or subject to controversy. Since then, the supervisory board of the social network, which really took office a year ago, has been working hard on ” lighten ” the texts. Also, this council recently made proposals to the platform on censorship of politicians. Proposals which should very soon give birth to new rules.
More special treatment for “politicians”
Facebook has, with its supervisory board, decided to trust a third party on the relevance of its censorship policy. Censorship intended above all ” reduce the spread of fake news and other types of viral disinformation, such as memes or manipulated photos and videos “. But in 2018, the managerial staff of Facebook had also announced that the social network only found it for Facebook, ” an appropriate role (…) to arbitrate political debates and prevent a politician’s speech from reaching its audience and from being subjected to public debate and scrutiny “. So the platform decided to exempt politicians from the third-party fact-checking program (third-party fact-checkers).
In fact, therefore, the social network has so far exempted politicians from sanctions in the event of disinformation, in the name of “public interest”And the right for the public to form their own opinion. But recent events in Chapters had forced the platform to suspend an American president of the republic. So, for the Supervisory Board, it was high time for the platform to repeal this exemption and apply the ” same rules for all users Whether they are politicians or not. The announcement of new rules in this direction, could be made, according to an American technological information site, as of this Friday.
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