Free speech still lives at Facebook

Published October 13, 2017 4:47pm ET



Free speech still lives at Facebook. The tech giant’s chief operating officer said Facebook would never censor a campaign video like the one Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., had pulled from Twitter.

“The question is should divisive political or issue ads run?” Sheryl Sandberg told Mike Allen of Axios. “Our answer is yes because when you cut off speech for one person, you cut off speech for other people.” And that is truly tremendous news.

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