"As Facebook continues to shrink from responsibilities that would see the company moderating political speech, Joe Biden has apparently had enough.
The presumptive Democratic nominee launched a campaign of sorts against Facebook leadership Thursday, with an open letter slamming Facebook’s decisions and a catchy hashtag, #movefastfixit—a play on the company’s much-maligned early slogan, “Move fast and break things.”
In the broadside against the social network, Biden calls on his supporters—and perhaps more broadly, Facebook’s critics—to demand the platform stop promoting “fake news” (a favorite term of President Trump, applied differently here), move quickly to remove viral misinformation, act against content that could suppress the vote and to stop PACs and candidates from relying on Facebook ads to “spread lies,” particularly within two weeks of the election.
While most of the points are common criticisms of the social network, the proposal for a two-week “pre-election period” during which Facebook would fact-check political ads before allowing them to run is something new."
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