Facebook on Sunday announced it's developing a plan to stop misinformation aimed at keeping people from participating in the 2020 census
Facebook on Sunday announced it's developing a plan to stop misinformation aimed at keeping people from participating in the 2020 census, the results of which will shape American political districting for a decade.
Murphy said civil rights groups have identified the 2020 election and census as events likely to inspire harassment, discrimination and misinformation aimed at disenfranchising racial and religious minorities, immigrants, and LGBTQ individuals. A number of advocacy groups have already warned about potential efforts to skew census participation in order to under-count minorities and give outsize representation to rural whites once the census is used to draw political districts in 2022.
Facebook also said Sunday that by the end of the year it will resurrect its election "war room," first launched during the 2018 U.S. midterms, for the 2020 presidential campaign in order to quickly respond to voter suppression, hate speech and other threats. A similar operation was set up for last week's Democratic debates, the company added.
“We expect that people will understand our rules ... and they will try to alter their activity to subvert our rules," Neil Potts, Facebook’s public policy director, told POLITICO. "It is incumbent on us to be aware of that and have our rules be nimble enough that we can iterate on [them] very quickly to get down that type of speech that is meant to disenfranchise people.”
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