Facebook Gave 13 Newsworthiness Exemptions to Content-Moderation Rules

Facebook gave politicians 13 exemptions to its content-moderation rules over a one-year period because their offending posts were determined to be newsworthy, the company revealed Thursday in a series of quarterly reports on its moderation practices. The company also said it had applied the newsworthiness exception to 55 other cases between June 2021 and June 2022.

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