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speak easy

(9,244 posts)
Tue Oct 26, 2021, 01:27 AM Oct 2021

Mark Zuckerberg nixed a Spanish language version of Facebook's "voting information center" in 2020.

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. election, Facebook built a “voting information center” that promoted factual information about how to register to vote or sign up to be a poll worker. Teams at WhatsApp wanted to create a version of it in Spanish, pushing the information proactively through a chat bot or embedded link to millions of marginalized voters who communicate regularly through WhatsApp. But Zuckerberg raised objections to the idea, saying it was not “politically neutral,” or could make the company appear partisan, according to a person familiar with the project who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, as well as documents reviewed by The Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/25/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-whistleblower/
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Mark Zuckerberg nixed a Spanish language version of Facebook's "voting information center" in 2020. (Original Post) speak easy Oct 2021 OP
Non-English readers/writers voting is not legitimate according to him, apparently... RockRaven Oct 2021 #1
What an asshole uponit7771 Oct 2021 #2

RockRaven

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1. Non-English readers/writers voting is not legitimate according to him, apparently...
Tue Oct 26, 2021, 02:02 AM
Oct 2021

But English readers/writers voting is, somehow.

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