Facebook has begun putting information labels on posts after major advertisers pulled sponsorship from the top social media app citing lax moderation of free speech.
The Silicon Valley company added a “voting info” note to a post from President Trump on Tuesday morning that argued mail-in balloting would lead to “the most corrupt election in history.”
“Mail-In Voting, unless changed by the courts, will lead to the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation’s History! #RIGGEDELECTION,” Trump’s post read.
The label attached by Facebook leads to a voter information page on the USA.gov website. The note itself does not fact-check the post, as was done on Twitter, after which a company representative said Trump’s tweets about mail-in voter fraud during the pandemic post were “potentially misleading.”
Facebook has been hit hard by advertisers such as Verizon and Unilever that pulled big money spots from the platform over what they decried as a failure by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company to crack down on hate speech and misinformation.
Facebook representative Andy Stone said the label was not political and pointed to similar information in posts made by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Samantha Zager, deputy national press secretary for the Trump campaign, defended Trump, saying the president was “absolutely correct.”
