After the fronde house, it is time for Mark Zuckerberg to give collateral. Friday evening, at the end of a week of extremely tense within the social network american, the boss of Facebook has announced to its employees in anger at a series of sites which may lead to a revision of the moderation policy of the platform. The idea is to come back on various points of the internal regulations that led Mark Zuckerberg to leave intact messages polemics of president Donald Trump, while Twitter had moderate. The first two reported false information on voting by correspondence. The third suggested use of force against the looters stalking in the margins of the protests against racism and police violence. “I understand that the decision I made last week was kind of nervous, disappointed or hurt many of you,” writes Mark Zuckerberg.

The rules of Facebook, allows States to threaten to use force – but it does not permit calls to violence that pose an immediate risk to the populations. “We will consider whether we should not amend this rule in two specific situations”, said the boss of Facebook. “The first is the excessive use of force. Given the history-sensitive in the United States, this requires special attention.” The second concerns the countries that are already theatres of unrest or conflict.

The teams Facebook will also review the rules to ensure that the platform does not broadcast the speech aimed at dissuading the american voters are going to vote. “In regard to voting by correspondence, where to put the boundary between a legitimate debate on this modality of voting, and the attempts to mislead voters about where, when and how to vote? If a newspaper publishes articles about that visit offices of vote is dangerous, with the pandemic of Covid-19, how can we determinate if it is a health information or a manipulation to divert the readers from the ballot box?”, continues Mark Zuckerberg.

Promise of transparency

The boss of Facebook also promises to examine whether the platform can abandon its policy of moderation binary on content, calling for violence, which are either deleted or left intact. “I’m afraid that this leads us to éditorialiser content that we don’t like even if they do not violate our regulations,” says Mark Zuckerberg, who says he is prepared, however, to listen to the arguments in the opposite direction.

Another promise: to make more transparent the internal decision-making process, and ensure that the right people are included in discussions. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg told his employees have received a report of the team that manages the moderation policy of Facebook after the publication of the message of Donald Trump on the protests. This paper explored the possible solutions to handle this message, with the order of preference. Mark Zuckerberg has also sought advice externally, before slicing with a small group of senior executives from the social network. An employee noted that only one person in this group was black, and the team Integrity, which handles issues of representation, had not been invited to the discussions.

The boss of Facebook pointed out: all of these audits will not necessarily lead to reforms. These advertisements can certainly be a way to calm the employees slingers, but nothing fundamentally changes. A single point of the message of Mark Zuckerberg is real: Facebook will develop an information center on the presidential election of 2020, on the model of those put in place for the pandemic Covid-19. “We want everyone to have access to accurate information and authoritative on this election,” he wrote. It will likely be information the civic on how to register to vote, how to vote on D-day, and what are the days and hours of opening of polling stations.

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