Christian Carlos. Peninsula 360 Press.
The current president of the United States, Donald Trump is losing the support of large social platforms on the Internet; until now, Facebook e Instagram, Twitter, YouTube from Google, and Tik Tok ?of ByteDance? have had to use the media to stop the outrages of disinformation that the president and Republican supporters have spread across the web in the last week after Joe Biden became president-elect.
This Tuesday, the Chinese company Tik Tok had to maneuver legally before the U.S. Court of Appeals to avoid the veto driven by Donald Trump, who signed two decrees where "for national security" the company ByteDance - owner of Tik Tok - must dispose of its shares to U.S. capital.
This is in addition to statements from Facebook's Product Manager, Rob Leathernwhen he issued a statement on Twitter where Facebook and Instagram maintain his stance that Joe Biden is the projected winner of the November 3 election. "We are temporarily extending a series of measures we have put in place to protect the electoral process."he says.
The Mark Zuckerberg-led company's primary revenue, as noted, is ads. Leathern announced that Facebook ad payments for post-election presidential campaigns are on pause, specifically the Facebook Ad Library platform, and notes that, so far. "The technical capacity is not available in the short term for approval of political advertising by states or any particular individual."which is a halt to Facebook's revenue in terms of advertisers.
The main reason, Leathern concluded, is for Facebook to commit "to giving political advertisers equal access to tools and services."
The situation is becoming increasingly difficult for the current U.S. president, as Trump recently fired the former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper by Christopher C. MillerThe former director of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre:
"Twitter's approach to world leaders, candidates and public officials is based on the principle that people have the power to choose to see what their leaders are saying in a clear context."a Twitter spokesman told the media on November 7. After multiple tweets from Donald Trump, as a candidate for re-election in the United States, were "moderated" by the social network.
This means that, as soon as Donald Trump is forced to leave office as president of the United States, the Twitter account of the businessman will not have the same considerations since he would not be, after January 20, "a world leader, a candidate or public official" so Twitter could implement more robust measures against the disinformation propagated by the head of the US executive.
However, he clarified Twitter that: "This policy scheme applies to current world leaders and candidates for public office and not to private citizens when they are no longer in office.". Which may also mean a continuation of Trump's behavior towards Twitter users.
This is not an easy situation for any of the social networks: Facebook and Instagram, and Twitter. Recently, it has been reported that many fake accounts were spreading false information about the election on the last day of voting, November 3, when Twitter and Facebook deleted groups of right-wing accounts that spread false information and exacerbated the confusion in the midst of U.S. proselytizing, as was the case on the last day of the election. the case of Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon, who was Donald Trump's former campaign advisor in 2016, made unfortunate statements - which could qualify as hate speech and incitement to physical violence for the purpose of murder - by literally calling for the resignation of immunologist Anthony Stephen Fauci, who is in charge of investigations into the current COVID-19 pandemic, and for his head to be hung on a stake along with that of Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
His show had to be removed from YouTube. "The video was removed for violating our policy against incitement to violence," YouTube spokesman Alex Joseph told Bloomberg news agency.
Consequently, groups of people who supported Bannon's initiative were removed from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube in order to stop the statements made by the communicator that confused the results of the election in which Democrat Joe Biden was reiterated as the winner as the 46th president-elect of the United States.
