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1. Facebook says it has drawn a line in the sand —

Any content that suggests "wearing a mask can make you sick" will be removed because it "could lead to imminent harm."

A Popular Information investigation reveals Facebook isn't following through

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2. Posts claiming masks will make you sick continue to proliferate on Facebook.

For example, this post by the "Conservative Republicans of Texas" which claims masks "create serious health risks for the wearer"

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3. Facebook removed this post AFTER it was flagged by Popular Information

But it failed to remove an identical post published to another large page

Facebook is not even taking basic steps to identify duplicates of content it has determined to be unsafe

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4. Popular Information identified 23 posts claiming masks make you sick and sent them to Facebook

The company removed 11 of them.

This post from which claims masks are "useless" and interferes with building a "strong immunity" remains

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5. Beginning Friday, claims from conspiracy theorist and InfoWars guest Russell Blaylock, asserting that masks are dangerous, began to spread rapidly on Facebook

The company has not identified or removed these posts

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6. Facebook had $70B in revenue last year and appears unable or unwilling to enforce it's own policies - even policies that it says are necessary to protect people's lives

That's where independent accountability journalism comes in

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7. Masks can dramatically reduce the spread of the virus in the United States.

So this kind of misinformation to spread has serious health consequences

Facebook says it understands this but its not backing up its public statements w/action

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1. Let's talk about this Zuckerberg quote: "I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online. Private companies probably shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that."
2. First, Facebook does way more fact-checking than Twitter. WAY MORE.

Of the two companies, Facebook spends a lot more time as the arbiter of truth.

One of the topics Facebook fact checks? Misrepresentation concerning methods of voting.

popular.info/p/facebook-and…
3. When Zuckerberg announced this policy, he specifically said that politicians like Trump WOULD NOT BE EXEMPT

Then Trump started blatantly violating the policy by calling absentee ballots and ballot applications "illegal" and Zuckerberg pretended it never happened
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1. This is a clarifying moment.

It shows exactly what Facebook is and who Zuckerberg is

Trump is violating Facebook's rules on election misinformation

Zuckerberg's response was to go on Fox News and defend Trump's right to undermine the integrity of the election
2. For several years, Zuckerberg has oriented Facebook's entire public policy apparatus around placating Republicans and Trump

Again and again, Facebook has taken actions to empower Trump and the right-wing, ignoring their own policies

popular.info/p/the-republic…
3. Trump is spending millions on Facebook ads featuring claims that have been debunked by Facebook's third-party fact-checkers

In response, Facebook CHANGED ITS POLICIES to allow Trump (and other politicians) to lie in ads

popular.info/p/facebook-say…
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1. Tens of thousands of nursing home residents are dying of COVID-19

In response, the nursing home industry has launched a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign to acquire legal immunity against residents

AND IT'S WORKING

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2. COVID-19 did not create the problems at nursing homes. It exposed them.

The GAO found that between 2013 and 2017, 82% of the nation's 15,000 nursing homes had "an infection prevention and control deficiency cited in one or more years."

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3. The nursing home industry "has spent more than $4M on lobbying over the past year, employing more than a dozen full-time lobbyists."

It recently hired "Brian Ballard, former lobbyist for President Donald Trump"

16 states have granted them immunity

popular.info/p/legal-immuni…
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