{"id":110503,"date":"2020-11-11T23:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-biden-aide-bill-russo-rips-facebook-over-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T23:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T20:44:29","slug":"joe-biden-aide-bill-russo-rips-facebook-over-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-aide-bill-russo-rips-facebook-over-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden aide Bill Russo rips Facebook over misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joe Biden aide Bill Russo rips Facebook<\/a> over misinformation<\/strong>”
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\n A Joe Biden campaign staffer tore into Facebook this week for letting misinformation and calls to violence flourish on the platform despite attempts to slow their spread.<\/p>\n

Bill Russo, a deputy communications director for the president-elect\u2019s campaign, ripped the social network in a series of Twitter posts<\/a> over its failure to clamp down on users disputing the 2020 election results and threatening insurrection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew this would happ<\/a>en. We pleaded with Facebook for over a year to be serious about these problems. They have not,\u201d Russo tweeted late Monday. \u201cOur democracy is on the line. We need answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russo\u2019s Twitter thread cited several examples of what he cast as dangerous content that Facebook has struggled to rein in since Election Day, including former President Trump adviser Stephen Bannon\u2019s call to behead top federal officials in a video and a group falsely claiming Democrats stole the election.<\/p>\n

Facebook has reportedly removed several pages linked to Bannon and took down the group after it grew to more than 360,000 members.<\/p>\n

Russo also pointed to posts that appeared to encourage real-world violence, such as one user sharing a link to a \u201cCitizen\u2019s Guide\u201d to insurrection. An analysis commissioned by Reuters<\/a> found thousands of posts containing violent rhetoric leading up to the election.<\/p>\n

Facebook defended its efforts to limit misleading or violent content ahead of Election Day in a statement to news outlets<\/a>, noting that it has announced new products and policies and built a large fact-checking network.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe changed our products to ensure fewer people see false information and are made aware of it when they do, and highlighted reliable election information where nearly everyone on Facebook and Instagram saw that Vice President Biden was the projected winner of the US election,\u201d the company said in the statement.<\/p>\n

Russo\u2019s tweets offer another hint that the Biden administration will be tough on Facebook, which has faced criticism for its reluctance to restrict false claims during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Biden has said he supports revoking Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields Facebook and other tech platforms from liability for their users\u2019 posts. He also criticized Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg in a January interview with the New York Times<\/a>, calling him \u201ca real problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russo took aim at Zuckerberg in a Saturday tweet<\/a> that he later deleted. The comedian Sacha Baron Cohen posted a photo of Zuckerberg and Trump shaking hands and wrote, \u201cOne down. One to go.\u201d Russo retweeted it and added, \u201cHell yes.\u201d\n <\/div>\n