Joe Biden’s presidential campaign chided Facebook after the social media giant refused to remove an ad released by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, asserting that it is allowing &#…
’s presidential campaign, asserting that it is allowing “deliberately misleading material to corrupt its platform.”that the spot “makes assertions that have been proven demonstrably false by various news outlets.”
Katie Harbath, Facebook’s public policy director, global elections, wrote in a letter to the Biden campaign that their “approach is grounded in Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is already arguably the most scrutinized speech there is. Thus, when a politician speaks or makes an ad, we do not send it to third-party fact checkers.
The letter was sent to Biden Campaign Manager Greg Schultz and Deputy General Counsel Lynn Eisenberg.
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