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Should Twitter, Facebook, and Others Delete Provably Wrong Material?
Social media platforms say it’s not their job to make sure that everything people say on their sites is accurate.
06 Mar 2019, 11:24 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Social media platforms say it’s not their job to make sure that everything people say on their sites is accurate. “We definitely don’t want to be the arbiter of the truth,” Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told the BBC in 2017. That position is understandable: Not only would the task of verifying every post be enormous, but censorship would annoy many of the sites’ most active users.
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