- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once again said that Dr. Trump’s former adviser. Steve Benn’s account will not be suspended after federal officials, including Anthony Fawcett, were called for beheading.
- Zuckerberg said in a Virtual Senate hearing Tuesday that this is a call because to do so “our policies dictate what we should do in this case.”
- Benn posted a video of his podcast, which he posted on the platform on November 5, during which he asked to behead Foki and others. Facebook took the video down after a while but did not suspend Buttun’s account.
- According to Facebook’s policy, the first offenses of terrorism or child abuse, will kick the user off the platform.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated during a virtual caucus congressional hearing on Tuesday that he would not suspend Steve Bennon’s account following his call to behead a doctor in a November 5 video.
At the hearing, Zuckerberg acknowledged that the video violates Facebook’s policies, which is why the firm took down the video. But when Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) asked if Facebook would suspend the account of Trump’s former adviser, Zuckerberg said the company wouldn’t.
“Senator, no, our policies dictate what we should do in this case,” Zuckerberg said at Tuesday’s hearing.
In a video of his podcast on November 5, the non-fiction and FBI director Christopher Ware went on a rampage, which he repeated on Facebook, as well as Twitter and YouTube. He criticized both for disagreeing with President Donald Trump and said he would “put a pike on their heads” to warn other federal officials outside the White House.
Facebook removed the video, but Zuckerberg later told employees at an all-hand meeting that the non-Nunn had not sufficiently violated company policies to boot from the platform.
“While I think the crimes here came close to crossing that line, they clearly couldn’t cross it,” Zuckerberg told the meeting, according to a CNBC report.
YouTube removed the video in question from Ben Ban’s channel, “Steve Ban’s Battle Room.” Twitter took a very aggressive step and banned the violent nun’s account from the site for violating its policy around violent threats.
Facebook, Twitter and other plat online platforms have launched an investigation into policing misinformation following the 2020 presidential election and how they keep the content moderate.
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A hearing was scheduled Tuesday to discuss how companies make such decisions, notably how both Twitter and Facebook handled the New York Post’s story, which contains unconfirmed claims about Biden’s son.
Twitter banned the story’s URL and Facebook limited its reach, undermining the belief of Republicans that the tech industry discriminates against Rs. During the hearing, conservative lawmakers questioned Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on their part of what they say is conservative bias on their platforms.
