Nick Clegg: Trump years had a somewhat paralyzing effect on the whole of the kind of senior leadership at Facebook. The Oversight Board would help make some of the most controversial content decisions but take another two years to set up. After the break, Zuckerberg is drawn back into the responsibility he wanted out of. In May 2020, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by police. Protesters gathered around the country to express their grief and outrage. President Trump, of course, weighed in online.
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Facebook used to brag about how its tools helped politicians swing elections. Now, the platform’s relationship to politics is much more complicated. Today: the story of how one politician, again and again, forced Zuckerberg to confront his own role in democracy.
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