During a speech in Washington, D.C., Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications Nick Clegg announced Tuesday that the company intends to keep up all posts from politicians, even if they violate the social media giant's community rules, arguing that such statements from political figures are "newsworthy." (The Hill — September 24, 2019)
We do not submit speech by politicians to [Facebook’s] independent fact-checkers, and we generally allow it on the platform even when it would otherwise breach our normal content rules.
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During a speech in Washington, D.C., Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications Nick Clegg announced Tuesday that the company intends to keep up all posts from politicians, even if they violate the social media giant's community rules, arguing that such statements from political figures are "newsworthy." (The Hill — September 24, 2019)
