Recently, Facebook and Twitter have both made headlines for decisions that we made by their executives on policing the language of Donald Trump. Twitter has made the decision to put warnings on some of Trump’s tweets, while Facebook CEO has made the decision not to do so nor fact check political ads and posts- despite Facebook’s Community Standards being clear on calls to violence and hate speech. Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, says that he’s “uncomfortable being an arbiter of truth”.
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