A ban on fact-checking is responsible for this, which applies to people nominated for the presidential election.
Trump banned from Facebook so far
Trump is currently blocked on Facebook. After the days of the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the former president is no longer allowed to post anything on his Instagram and Facebook accounts. Despite the ban, “Team Trump,” a page run by Trump’s political group, is still active and has 2.3 million followers.
However, the Meta company plans to allow Trump back on the platforms. The reason for this is his announcement of his presidential candidacy.
Message from Meta informs about the admissibility of Trump's lies
The former president announced on the evening of November 15, 2022 that he would seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, becoming only the second commander in chief ever elected to two non-consecutive terms.
Facebook sent a memo to its fact-checkers
As CNN reports , Facebook has sent a memo to its fact-checking pages saying that Trump's lies will no longer be subject to fact-checking once he runs for US president. This means that all Facebook fact checkers need to stop checking facts about Trump. According to CNN politics, this ban applies to everything Trump says, and false statements from Trump can be further shared by other users on the platform.
Facebook fact checkers have often had to deal with Trump
Facebook parent company Meta pays third-party fact-checkers to flag fake news on Facebook and Instagram. These independent groups receive money from Facebook and can label certain posts if they are false or misleading, warning uninformed readers.
Meta's announcement underscores the challenges social media platforms face in deciding how to handle another Trump presidential campaign.
Given that fact-checkers had to deal so often with the former president's popular theories, Meta wrote the memo.
It said: “Some of you have reached out to us seeking advice on vetting political statements in anticipation of a possible announcement of former President Trump’s candidacy.” And further: “Political statements are not suitable for fact checking. This includes both the words of a politician and photos, videos or other content that are clearly identified as having been created or labeled by the politician or his campaign." Former politician and meta manager Nick Clegg also defended the rule in 2019 : "It is not our job to intervene when politicians speak.”
Explicitly mentioned: No exception for Trump either
The agreement that Trump's lies cannot be checked applies not only to him, but to all politicians. The absurd thing about the current announcement, however, is that it explicitly states that there will be no exception to the rule for Trump's lies and the Trump team's pages.
The website Volksverpetzer.de writes: “The fact that it has to be specifically mentioned that Trump or his lies are not exempt because he creates so much work for fact-checking sites through his non-stop disinformation ironically shows how bad the danger is and how This policy of the platform [Facebook], which endangers discourse, is fatal.”
So what doesn't actually contain anything new means in plain language:
From now on, Facebook no longer wants or is allowed to protect its users from the falsehoods spread by Trump.
What Facebook doesn't want or isn't allowed to do, we at Mimikama are allowed to do, because we are not fact checkers or partners of Facebook!
But is his announcement enough reason for the rule to come into force?
Meta's policy does not state that a candidate must formally register with the Federal Election Commission to be considered a prospective candidate.
"We define 'politicians' as candidates running for office, current incumbents - and therefore many of their cabinet members - as well as political parties and their leaders," the statement said. It further concluded that “if former President Trump makes a clear, public announcement that he is running for office, he would be considered a politician under our program guidelines.”
A Meta spokesman, Andy Stone, said the memo was "a reiteration of our longstanding policy that should not be reshaped for anyone."
Opinions differ
Many Republicans and Democrats criticized Meta's fact-checking program. Many Republicans were of the opinion that Meta was going far too far, while many Democrats were of the opinion that the company was not doing enough .
So far, Donald Trump has more than 20,000 lies in one term for the truth.
Author: Nick L.
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