The Biden Campaign Has Been Pleading With Facebook to Fact-Check the President
The company holds the president to a lower standard, Biden’s campaign manager said in letters.
Hey all, it’s Kurt. Back in early June, a few days after U.S. president Donald Trump posted on Facebook and Twitter that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” many Facebook Inc. employees were furious that the company didn’t remove the post for violating the company’s rules on encouraging and glorifying violence. It looked like the president was receiving special treatment.
That’s certainly how Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden felt. “You seem to have carved out an exception for Donald Trump that permits him to abuse your platform because he is the president,” said Biden’s campaign manager, Jen O’Malley Dillon, in a private letter to the company on June 5.