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Facebook says that it would put organisations on suspension for breaking the terms of content
In another effort to slow down the dissemination of disinformation on its website, Facebook plans to place groups on its platform with too many posts breaking its content policies on a kind of probation, the company said. First reported by The Washington Post, Facebook will ban any group — both public and private — with several posts breaching its community standards. Community admins will have to accept all posts manually for 60 days, although there is no appeal for probationary status categories.
We are temporarily asking administrators and moderators of some political and social groups in the US to accept all posts if their group has a lot of violations of Community norms by participants, said Facebook spokesperson Leonard Lam in a statement sent to The Verge, a step we are taking to protect users during this extraordinary moment.
Admins will be aware of the status of their party and will be informed when the restrictions are lifted.
Facebook may keep watch on how moderators in restricted groups comply with posts over the probationary period; if they decide to accept posts that violate the laws, Facebook will shut down the groups altogether.
Earlier this week, Facebook shut down the Steal Group — which had more than 300,000 members — who had shared election misinformation about polling rigging and wrongly argued that Democrats were attempting to steal the election. The Social Media Site has taken numerous measures to attempt to curb the flow of election misinformation; Facebook is now blocking US-based campaign advertising, and has specifically barred ads that wrongly declared victory.
Significant news reports on Saturday called for the election of Joe Biden, with Pennsylvania and Nevada driving the former vice president past the 270 votes expected to secure the election college. As far as this writing is concerned, President Trump has yet to concede.
During the probationary period, Facebook may keep watch on how moderators of restricted groups comply with posts; if they continue to accept posts that violate the rules, Facebook will shut down the groups altogether.
Earlier this week, Facebook shut down the Steal Group — which had more than 300,000 members — who had shared election misinformation regarding voting rigging, and wrongly argued that Democrats were attempting to steal the election. The Social Media Platform has taken a number of steps to try to stem the tide of election misinformation; Facebook is currently banning US-based political ads, and has specifically barred ads that falsely claimed victory.
Major news reports on Saturday called for the election of Joe Biden, with Pennsylvania and Nevada driving the former vice president past the 270 votes expected to win the polls. As of this report, President Trump has yet to admit this.
