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October 16, 2019 10:00 am

Why social networks keep tripping over their own content moderation policies


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Our first-ever live event takes place in San Francisco on Tuesday, October 22nd: I’ll be talking with the brilliant disinformation researcher Renee DiResta. Grab a ticket and come say hi!


Over the past week or so, it has felt like the entire public conversation around tech has turned a now familiar question: what should stay up, and what should come down?


First, there’s the ongoing debate about whether Facebook should permit politicians to lie in their ads. (A tiny bit more on that below.)


Second, a pro-Trump conference screened a video of footage from the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service edited to depict “the president shooting, stabbing, and attacking the news media and his opponents.” YouTube restricted the video’s audience but...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/10/16/20915658/trump-shooting-video-facebook-ads-twitter-world-leaders-rule

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