Posted on 08/21/2020 11:31:35 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg 'is planning a "kill switch" to shut off political ads after Election Day if Trump refuses to accept defeat'.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and some company executives have reportedly been planning a 'kill switch' to shut off political advertising after the election is over to curb misinformation.
Facebook is looking at post-election scenarios that include attempts by President Donald Trump or his campaign to use the platform to delegitimize the results, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
The proposed 'kill switch' for political advertising would turn off political ads after November 3 if the election's outcome was not immediately clear, or if Trump disputed the results.
The discussion about post-election strategy remains fluid, and it was unclear whether Facebook would follow through on the proposal, the sources said.
A Facebook spokesman declined to comment in detail on the company's post-election plans when reached by DailyMail.com.
The spokesman said: 'we are considering a range of political advertising options during the closing period of the election.'
The social media company has been under fire for exempting politicians' ads and speech from fact checks.
Last year, smaller rival Twitter banned political ads, but Facebook has maintained that it does not want to stifle political speech.
Twitter in recent months has added fact-checking labels and warnings to tweets by President Trump, including some of his tweets about mail-in voting.
Facebook, which decided not to act on such content, has faced criticism from employees and lawmakers.
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I pray to God POTUS wins in a landslide. This is seriously a battle of good and evil. God will prevail!
Facebook can try. Meanwhile, check out this protest sign...
https://thedonald.win/p/GvB64S6l/best-protest-sign-ever/c/
That lady is brilliant!!
Amen to prayer and concern.
God will give a nudge to the the team he supports but he expects us to stop them from mailing in fraudulent votes and falsifying votes and getting illegals to vote and somehow getting dead people to vote.
God already gave us Donald Trump. It’s time to do our part.
But of course I will be praying the whole way through until the election
Will he still allow Chi-Com misinformation ads?
Fixed it.
Pure projection.
Too bad they did not do that after the 2016 to shut down the coup d’tat attempt...but then they supported that so all of the DNC lies were ok.
We won’t know the results of the election for weeks afterward.
Considering the current state of our society, it will be very dangerous times.
I second that thought.
By the time the electorates meet to decide in January, it will still be contested.
Portland & Seattle x 10 all over America.
They absolutely plan to steal this. He said “when” Trump loses, not “if”. We are going to have to shoot this out.
I don’t think it’s really political ads they want to shut off. They want to shut off information about the vote counting.
Does anyone else see that we will probably end up having to kill these people?
If this story is true Zuckerbergermeister should be in jail for sedition.
It will be the end of the 244 year United States of America regime in DC.
What emerges afterward is TBD.
They’re a publisher.
Someone wake up the guy with the bagpipes.
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“Misinformation” is “anything Leftists dislike”.
What does SMH mean?
Are you in prison without adequate letters?
I hope they give you back all your letters soon.
Be a good convict and you may prevail.
Geeze, do you mean neither party could be asking for donations the day after the 2020 election like they did the day, not a year like in the old days, but a day after the midterms.
Makes me want to Shake My Head!
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