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I don't quite understand how one can laud Facebook for refusing to be the arbiter of truth in one specific instance, when their entire business is based in larg

• thundergolfer 7y ago
  To me this is exactly what splits apart the argument in favour of Facebook not banning lies from politicians. Corporations like Facebook have a lot of power to filter the content on their platforms, and they do it all the time. How and when they do that filtering is down to incentives and power. There is no free speech principle being upheld on Facebook. A great example of how power and incentives influences corporate filtering, Twitter has a ban on inciting violence but publicly elected officials may be exempted. Twitter doesn’t like violence, but it doesn’t hold non-violence as a principle, same as Facebook not liking lies but not really being interested in honesty as a principle. Corporations like money. Source: twitter’s ‘Terrorism and violent extremism’ policy