Facebook Plans to End Hands-Off Approach to Politicians’ Posts
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Under the change, politicians’ posts will no longer be
presumed newsworthy, said the people with knowledge of
the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Politicians will be subject to Facebook’s content
guidelines that prohibit harassment, discrimination or
other harmful speech, they said.
Good. If you can't even pretend not to be a sociopathic human sack of feces online, you don't deserve to be elected to anything. We'll set that as the minimum decency bar, since it seems we never actually had a minimum decency bar until now.