Facebook Finally Decides Your Worst Uncle and Donald Trump Deserve the Same Content Moderation
The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.
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For years, Facebook has had two sets of rules—if not more—for its users. One set applied to everyday people on its platform: your mom, your friend doing low-key MLM scams, that guy you knew in high school who got really into guns. While some of these regulations weren’t publicly shared—and may have varied between markets—others were more clear: prohibitions against hate speech, threats of violence, nudity. Violate them, and you were likely to be suspended or even banned, with little recourse. The other set of rules concerned the famous and powerful, especially politicians, who could do basically whatever they wanted.