In a message to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the Biden campaign claims that the platform is backward in fulfilling its responsibility to protect democracy in the US by fighting the spread of misinformation about the 2020 presidential election.
According to Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon, Facebook is said to have failed to act based on its commitment to ban messages that give the wrong impression related to the voting process. For example, a video recently posted on a Facebook page about the Trump campaign featuring Donald Trump Jr. who revealed that his father's opponent had plans to add millions of fake ballot papers that could invalidate the vote as well as cancel the election.
In this regard, Facebook has added a label to the video and stated that voting by mail has a long history of trust in the US and it is the same predicted this year.
However, Biden's campaign says that the action taken by the social media platform is not enough.
In addition, Facebook is also accused of being biased and supporting Trump's action for US citizens to vote twice, which is to go out and vote at the polling station and submit votes by post.
However, a Trump campaign spokesman did not want to comment on the issue.
Previously, Facebook has taken several steps since the 2016 election to protect its platform from being manipulated by individuals who want to undermine US democracy. After U.S. government officials discovered that Russian agents could buy political ads as well as disseminate information on Facebook and other social media platforms in the last presidential election, Facebook took stricter action for advertisers wishing to spread political messages and search the political advertising database.
But most Democrats think Facebook's efforts are not enough. This is because Facebook has not been able to track advertisers targeting voters on a very small scale.
Even more unfortunate, the social media site is rumored to be allowing politicians to lie in political advertisements and has refused to remove the post of President Donald Trump.
Instead, Twitter has taken more aggressive action in political content over the past year, such as checking facts and deleting some Trump tweets, and banning political ads altogether. Twitter’s political advertising revenue is much smaller than Facebook’s, although Zuckerberg says it’s also not a big part of the company’s revenue.
Zuckerberg says he does not want to be a determinant of truth on Facebook, but O’Malley Dillon writes that by failing to fight misinformation, even Facebook fails to protect the voice of voters.
