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Fact-checkers offer additional suggestions for how to improve Facebook ahead of the 2020 presidential election | Poynter

After Facebook announced plans Thursday to scale back on political ads and increase voter information ahead of the 2020 elections, fact-checkers offered some additional suggestions for how the tech platform might handle potential misinformation.

In a post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote the company would start labeling “content that seeks to delegitimize the outcome of the election or discuss the legitimacy of voting methods.” This comes in the wake of a similar post by Zuckerberg in June announcing the company would begin labeling some political content on the platform.

FactCheck.org director Eugene Kiely advocated Facebook go a step further.

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Source: Fact-checkers offer additional suggestions for how to improve Facebook ahead of the 2020 presidential election – Poynter