Monitor = Sabotage.
Because sneaky Russian bots are the only source of pro-American, liberty-loving Facebook activity.
” Facebook’s head of civic engagement, Samidh Chakrabarti, ...”
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Well, probably there just could be no one as well steeped in American culture, history and the United States Constitution as Samidh Chakrabarti.
Not that it would be important or anything.
Oh, then it’s not a social media.
To fight off bad actors? Puleaze.
Fakebook has already admitted to running psyop experiments on users by only putting negative news in their feeds.
Fakebook exerts thought control and IS a bad actor trying to influence public perceptions and elections.
a room full of pink and blue haired people frantically removing any pro-conservative posts.
If they are a common carrier:
“If your business is to carry things for others, you have certain legal obligations,” she says. Whether you’re a postal service delivering letters or a ferry delivering people, the basic obligation is “to serve upon reasonable request without unreasonable discrimination at a just and reasonable price and with adequate care.”
read:https://ting.com/blog/getting-straight-about-common-carriers-and-title-ii/
If they are a content provider, they are responsible for all content posted on their site.
Right now they are legally straddling the fence and you can’t have it both ways. This action pushes them hard to the side of being a content provider because they are controlling the content. That would mean they are responsible for every nutcase post.
I believe Facebook is making a mistake and will be open for lawsuits.
Laugh if you must, but this presents a real and present danger to our democratic process.