SAN FRANCISCO, June 27 ― Facebook said yesterday it would ban a “wider category of hateful conduct” in ads as the embattled social media giant moved to respond to widening protests over its handling of inflammatory posts. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg also said Facebook would add tags to...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, DC on October 17, 2019. ― AFP pic
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg also said Facebook would add tags to posts that are “newsworthy” but violate platform rules ― following the lead of Twitter, which has used such labels on tweets from President Donald Trump.
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