Facebook’s fight against bad content is a mess

Facebook’s fight against bad content is a mess

6 years ago
Anonymous $hM_jrxqbr-

https://qz.com/1329967/facebooks-fight-against-bad-content-is-as-chaotic-as-ever/

Facebook is trying to have it both ways.

As a private company, it can ban whatever bad content it wants from its site, so it outlaws nudity and hate speech. But it also says that it doesn’t want to be the arbiter of truth, so it doesn’t remove patently false information that plagues its platform.