Facebook Considers Forming an Election Commission to Advise on Issues Around Global Polls: Report

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Fb has approached teachers and coverage specialists about forming a fee to advise it on points referring to world elections, the New York Instances reported on Wednesday, citing 5 folks with data of the matter.

The proposed physique may resolve on issues similar to political ads and their viability and issues round election-related misinformation, in response to the report.

An announcement on the fee may come this autumn in preparation for the 2022 US midterm elections, the report mentioned, cautioning such efforts have been preliminary and will nonetheless crumble.

Facebook declined to remark.

Social media corporations have grappled in recent times with how to handle world leaders and politicians who violate their tips.

The fee, if shaped, wouldn’t be the primary time Fb has arrange exterior teams to assist it make main selections. In 2018, the corporate created the Oversight Board, a panel that features former politicians, teachers and coverage specialists to rule on whether or not Fb is correct to take away sure content material from its platform.

In Might, the Oversight Board upheld Fb’s suspension of former US President Donald Trump, however mentioned the corporate was flawed to make the ban indefinite.

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