“We’ve found ourselves in the middle of the debate about what political speech is acceptable in the upcoming campaigns,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his opening remarks during the company’s third-quarter earnings call Wednesday. Talk about an understatement.
Roughly one hour before the call kicked off, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that his company would stop all political advertising on its platform globally, with the final policy on this matter to be shared Nov. 15.
Fast-growing video-creation application TikTok also said earlier this month that it would not accept political ads on its platform.
Facebook is resisting pressure to follow suit, thus far, despite heavy scrutiny of its policies to allow political ads that contain misinformation and to not subject posts from politicians to third-party fact-checkers.
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