USA 2020: Biden forcing on Facebook

Considering how Facebook today collects almost half of the world's population on its platforms, it is not surprising that politics considers Mark Zuckerberg's services an important megaphone for the dissemination of their messages. Trump knows well that in social media and in his summits (unlike what happens for example on Twitter) he has found a permissive attitude, so much so that he can convey any communication without any type of control and not even fact checking, in the name of freedom of expression . On the other hand, Joe Biden sees her in a diametrically opposed way and in the coming months will challenge the tycoon to become the new tenant of the White House.

Biden and her are asking for more stringent rules for FB The democratic candidate and the his staff in these hours are asking all their millions of supporters to sign an open letter and a petition addressed to the CEO of Menlo Park and the other managers of the company, asking them to introduce new policies defined with the aim of fighting the phenomenon disinformation and that of hate speech which recently on some occasions have seen protagonists also the same actors of overseas public life. These are the words of Bill Russo, spokesman for the campaign.

A real change in Facebook's policies for the platform and how to enforce them is necessary to protect against the risk of re-occurring what misinformation has caused in the 2016 elections and what continues to represent a danger today for our democracy.

The story is destined to polarize even more feedback in a moment certainly not easy for the United States, struggling with the grip of a health crisis that still persists, with demonstrations of protest and solidarity that affect the whole country by the killing of George Floyd and with the election campaign poised to enter in the alive one.

Source: The New York Times