Biden Campaign Asks for Details on Facebook’s Plans to Clean Up

Joe Biden’s campaign asked Facebook Inc on Tuesday to offer assurances that it is treating seriously what it called President Donald Trump’s “hateful content” and “disinformation.”

Campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon asked Facebook in a letter to move quickly to implement promised precautions for the general election after the company renewed its commitment to cleaning up its platform amid a advertiser’s boycott.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said Friday the company would take new steps to crack down on hate speech on his social media platform and launch “extra precautions to help everyone stay safe, stay informed, and ultimately use their voice where it matters most -- voting.”

O’Malley Dillon asked in a letter to Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs and communications, how Facebook would handle content that could suppress voters, whether its algorithm will continue to amplify “hateful content,” and how it will determine whether a post that violates Facebook’s community standards should be left up and labeled “newsworthy.”