Facebook Readies New ‘Safeguards’ In Advance Of 2020 Elections — Plans To Label Posts that Cast Doubt on Election Results

Fox Business reports that Facebook has safeguards set in place ahead of the 2020 U.S. election, and will halt all political advertisements once polls close on November third.

Oh, fantastic… Facebook, the epicenter of all official information (ahem liberal misinformation), is going to add new safeguards to posts. Nothing quite like knowing your freedom of speech is being muzzled by the overlords to make you feel warm and fuzzy today.

Let’s just put up a bunch of dummy bumpers for grown adults while we’re at it.

If able-bodied adults refuse to do their own research and let their emotions run amok due to the shared thoughts of others, or the potential win of either candidate, then they should go live in a country where a First Amendment ceases to exist.

Because I genuinely have to ask – how far do these bans go and what does enforcing them look like? Quite frankly, hoping for a candidate to win based on how the results are unfolding isn’t manipulative behavior.

If someone were to state, “So-and-so has totally won!” before the counting of votes has finalized, I’m sure their Facebook friends and family will remind them.

Suuuuch a threat, you guys.

If either candidate claims victory prior to the results being finalized then, as a public, we will collectively sigh and… continue waiting, I guess.
I’m on board with banning any and all messages that openly incite violence. Applying the ban to anything crawling outside of that scope is just a basket of BS.

From Fox Business:

In the former case, Facebook plans to halt all political advertisements once polls close on Nov. 3, an extension of an earlier restriction on new political ads in the week leading up to Election Day. The ban will likely last for a week, though Facebook says it could run longer if necessary. And it plans to label posts that cast doubt on election results with links to official information.

The social network has already banned messages that promote carrying of weapons to polling places or that attempt to organize “coordinated interference” with voting. Now it will also ban the use of “militarized language” in connection with calls for poll-watching. Under the new policy, which is not retroactive, President Donald Trump won’t be able to encourage supporters to be unofficial poll watchers as part of an “army for Trump,” as he said in a tweet this week.