Facebook will finally start labelling content from politicians that, despite being newsworthy, violates it content policies, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday in a Facebook Live session. Content that may lead to violence or suppresses voting, even it is by politicians, will be removed by Facebook. This announcement came almost a month after Twitter and Facebook chalked out drastically different policies on how to deal with hate speech by politicians, including US President Donald Trump. On May 29, Twitter had placed a public interest notice on a tweet by Trump that said, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts”, that sought to threaten people protesting against racism after the Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, a Black man, as they arrested him. Twitter limited its spread by disabling “Like” and “Retweet” (without comment) on the tweet, and fact checked Trump on his tweet about mail-in ballots in California. Facebook will also not follow a similar policy to fight voter suppression ahead of the 2020 US presidential election. Facebook, on the other hand refused to take down or add an addendum to Trump’s. But Zuckerberg stood his ground, even as multiple Facebook employees resigned in protest and staged the company’s first walkout, albeit a virtual one, to make their voices heard. Even after Friday’s announcement, the same post from Trump has not been labelled by Facebook. After the furore, Zuckerberg had said in a meeting with 25,000 Facebook employees that while Trump’s posts may not pose a “100 per cent clear-cut of…
