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'Weaponised' Facebook fails to protect civil rights, audit says

By Supantha Mukherjee and Elizabeth Culliford

Jul 9 2020 6:36AM

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'Weaponised' Facebook fails to protect civil rights, audit says

Facebook's decisions to allow controversial posts by President Donald Trump established a "terrible precedent" that could allow the platform to be "weaponised to suppress voting," an external civil rights audit found on Wednesday. The report, which Facebook commissioned ...

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