Hillary Clinton celebrates Twitter's decision to stop political advertising: '
This is the right thing to do for democracy in America and all over the world.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 30, 2019
What say you, @Facebook? https://t.co/dRgipKHzUG
Clinton, who narrowly lost to President Trump in 2016, has in party blamed her defeat on tech companies' failure to stop the spread of misinformation on their platforms, an issue that was highlighted when it was revealed that Russian intelligence operatives worked to manipulate U.S. voters with misleading or false advertisements and posts on Facebook and Twitter.
Hours earlier, the former secretary of State had called on Facebook to overturn its policy allowing candidates for political office to run paid advertisements that weren't subject to fact-checking, citing a danger to democracy.
Facebook's decision to allow false information in political advertisements is appalling.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 30, 2019
Voters are being confronted by millions of pieces of misinformation.
A world where up is down and down is up is a world where democracy can't thrive.
Facebook's refusal to ban advertising from political candidates that contains misinformation has put the company in the sights of Democrats on Capitol Hill, who grilled CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a recent hearing over the company's policies on fact-checking and political advertisements.
Zuckerberg has defended the policy, arguing that it is not a tech
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Comment by Bob Colescott on October 30, 2019 at 8:26pm
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After stealing the 2016 democratic nomination from the actual winner, Bernie Sanders, or after what she did to Libya and Syria, Clinton shouldn't be saying a thing about "what's good for democracy". This woman needs to keep her pie hole shut.
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