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UK government wants Facebook to meet its censorship demands faster (reclaimthenet.org)
5 points by dane-pgp on Nov 23, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden revealed that Facebook did not remove 30% of misleading posts within 8 hours of a takedown request from the UK government.

It's not clear from the article what leeway Facebook has for denying a request from the government, or what penalties there are (against Facebook or the government) for blocking information that later turns out to be correct.




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