Facebook reminds fact-checkers Trump is off limits if he says he's running again for president

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Facebook’s fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump if he announces that he is running for president, according to a company memo obtained by CNN

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Facebook's fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump if he announces that he is running for president, according to a company memo obtained by CNN.
4:44 PM · Nov 15, 2022

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Facebook’s fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump if he announces that he is running for president, according to a company memo obtained by CNN.

While Trump is currently banned from Facebook, the fact-check ban applies to anything Trump says and false statements made by Trump can be posted to the platform by others. Despite Trump’s ban, “Team Trump,” a page run by Trump’s political group, is still active and has 2.3 million followers.

Tuesday’s memo from Meta underscores the challenges social media platforms face in deciding how to handle another potential Trump presidential campaign. The former president is widely expected to announce his third presidential bid on Tuesday.

Facebook’s parent company Meta pays third-party fact-checking organizations to apply fact-check labels to misinformation across Facebook and Instagram.

The carve-out is not exclusive to Trump and applies to all politicians, but given the rate fact-checkers find themselves dealing with claims made by the former president, a manager on Meta’s “news integrity partnership” team emailed fact-checkers on Tuesday.

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[we can do it]

1. Cue the excuses for the fascist bullshit factory.

[AleksS]

2. Geez that is so bass-ackward

You’d think that you’d fact check presidential candidates twice as hard, given the ramifications and consequences. Eliminating fact checks is about the dumbest thing I can imagine.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Exactly. . . nt

[Blue Owl]

3. Fuckerberg has really set the bar high

[JohnSJ]

4. So glad I never signed up for that piece of garbage

[ck4829]

5. You'd think a politician would be, I dunno, double-fact checked.

[TheRealNorth]

6. So, what was the rationale?

Can anybody running for office get a free pass?

[niyad]

8. WTAF???? What possible rationale could they have, since, if his lips or

fingers are moving, he is LYING?????

[Cha]

9. Bullshit.. that's when they should

Double UP on the FACT CHECKING!!

GD criminal who tried to OVERTHROW our Government!

[msongs]

10. trump is often quoted on a particular democrats friendly web message board..... nt

[pnwmom]

11. So the rest of us need to. n/t