{"id":26691,"date":"2020-06-08T21:27:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=26691"},"modified":"2020-06-08T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:47:51","slug":"scientists-ask-facebook-to-shut-down-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/scientists-ask-facebook-to-shut-down-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"<Scientists ask Facebook to shut down Trump>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists call on Facebook to consider stricter policies on misinformation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More than 140 high-profile researchers funded by Mark Zuckerberg are urging Facebook not to let president Trump spread \u2018misinformation and incendiary statements\u2019 amid protests over racial injustice.<\/p>\n<p>Through a\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jasonsynaptic\/letter-of-concern-to-mark-zuckerberg-from-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-funded-scientists-cd7e8335d17b\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">letter on Saturday,<\/a>\u00a0they asked Zuckerberg to \u201cconsider stricter policies on misinformation and incendiary language that harms people\u201d, especially during the current turmoil over racial injustice, calling\u00a0the spread of \u201cdeliberate misinformation and divisive language\u201d contrary to the researchers\u2019 goals of using technology to prevent and eradicate disease, improve childhood education and reform the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>The letter objects specifically to Zuckerberg\u2019s decision\u00a0not to act on a post\u00a0by Trump that stated \u201cwhen the looting starts, the shooting starts\u201d. The letter\u2019s authors called the post \u201ca clear statement of inciting violence.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/jun\/06\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-trump-scientists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Guardian<\/a>, some Facebook employees have even publicly objected to Zuckerberg\u2019s refusal to take down or label misleading or incendiary posts by Trump and other politicians. But Zuckerberg has so far refused.<\/p>\n<p>Last\u00a0Friday, Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-zuckerberg-racial-justice\/facebooks-zuckerberg-promises-a-review-of-content-policies-after-backlash-idUSKBN23C352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a post<\/a> that he would review \u201cpotential options for handling violating or partially-violating content aside from the binary leave-it-up or take-it-down decisions\u201d.\u00a0However, he added, \u201cI worry that this approach has a risk of leading us to editorialize on content we don\u2019t like even if it doesn\u2019t violate our policies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists call on Facebook to consider stricter policies on misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[99,1385,55,389,221],"class_list":["post-26691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-donald-trump","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26696,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26691\/revisions\/26696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}