The social network's CEO Mark Zuckerberg responds after a series of advertisers threaten to boycott the site over 'hate speech'.
He said the new rules would aim to do four things: provide"authoritative information on voting during the pandemic"; fight"voter suppression"; create"a higher standard for hateful content in ads"; and label"newsworthy content".pandemic that has left the country with the highest number of deaths in the world, some have expressed concerns about misinformation and a growing amount of hate speech circulating on the site.
But he added:"We will soon start labelling some of the content we leave up because it is deemed newsworthy, so people can know when this is the case. We'll allow people to share this content to condemn it, just like we do with other problematic content… but we'll add a prompt to tell people that the content they're sharing may violate our policies.
Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever, which includes Ben and Jerry's and Dove in its stable, was among the firms which had expressed concern, saying it would suspend Facebook advertising until the end of the year. It came amid a growing ad boycott campaign called"Stop Hate for Profit" that was started by several US civil rights groups to pressure Facebook to act on hate speech and misinformation.
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