After initiallypledgingnot to recommend civil and political groups to its user , but then sort ofcontinuing to do that anyway , Facebook once again affirmed its dedication to slim down the amount of political mental object that users see on Wednesday .
During afourth - quarter earningscall with analyst , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on the troupe ’s dedication to ramping down political content on the platform in the wake of an attempted revolt at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 , saying that the insurance was a “ sequel of work we ’ve been doing for a while to sour down the temperature and admonish divisive conversations . ”
“ One of the top pieces of feedback that we ’re get word from our community right now is that people do n’t want politics and fight to take over their experience on our service , ” Zuckerberg say .
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During testimonial he gave to Congress in October 2020 , Zuckerberg had claimed that Facebook had already stopped commend all “ political content or social issue groups ” to its users in an elbow grease to derogate political discord forrader of the contentious presidential election that was , at the time , just around the street corner . An investigation publish byThe Markupon January 19 after establish that — surprise ! — the weapons platform had in fact continued to recommend political groups to its users throughout the month of December . Even more damningly , the investigating close that a number of the groups shown to Trump supporters had include Post explicitly call for political violence , which is sort of not ideal , given the current land of thing .
In add-on to clamping down on recommended political group , Zuckerberg also confirmed on Wednesday that the company is also brainstorming shipway to bring down the amount of political content that users see in their News Feeds on a daily basis .
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