Facebook, already under scrutiny for recently censoring a New York Post expose about Hunter Biden’s alleged shady dealings in Ukraine and China, will tighten its rules on content concerning the U.S. presidential election in November, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The measures, which will include slowing the spread of viral content, tweaking users’ news feeds to change the type of content they see, and lowering the thresholds for detecting the types of content Facebook’s software views as dangerous, are being implemented in an attempt to calm election-related conflict, says Facebook spokesman Andy Stone.
“We’ve spent years building for safer, more secure elections,” he told the Journal. “We’ve applied lessons from previous elections, hired experts, and built new teams with experience across different areas to prepare for various scenarios.”
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That is fine; so long as it is applied equally for both sides.