Via Chron.com

Social media companies are attempting to reassure the public that this time, in 2020, they will not allow themselves to be transformed into misinformation delivery systems. That is what Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, wanted to convey Tuesday at the Atlantic Festival.

Something Clegg said, however, caught the attention of many who are wary of Facebook’s reassurances about preventing misinformation from going viral on its platform.

“It is not our role to intervene when politicians speak,” he said. “We do not submit speech by politicians to our independent fact-checkers, and we generally allow it on the platform. Even when it would otherwise breach our normal content rules.”

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