The Daily 202: Politicians will no longer get a free pass from Facebook
The Daily 202: Politicians will no longer get a free pass from Facebook Olivier Knox On this day in 1989, Chinese soldiers and tanks crushed pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, with a death toll Western sources put in the hundreds or thousands. In a move with global ramifications for online political speech, Facebook plans to change a policy under which it generally spares toxic speech by major political figures from content-moderation rules it applies to everyone else. At issue is a rule, first unfurled in October 2016, under which the social media giant t...