EU chief Vestager slams Facebook, praises Twitter for ad policy

Margre Vestr, European Union's powerful antitrust chief, on vember 7 praised micro-blogging site Twitter and criticized social media giant Facebook for ir different policies of running political s. Twitter h banned political s however, Facebook still continues to allow those s to go 'unchecked' and stresses 'free speech'. Both social media platforms have witnessed pressure from governments to prohibit s with false information which can furr affect election results. Twitter will ban all governmental s globally from this month. Vestr has also been granted ditional powers by EU to rein in techlogy sector for next five years. 

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Twitter's statement is t end of story: Vestr

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey h me a statement earlier that paying for targeted political messs on people can furr bring about significant risk to politics and can influence millions of people. However, Vestr believes that Dorsey's statement is t end of story, re are or issues like bots. EU chief said that it is important to take a step forward because company states its values. bots which she mentioned in her speech referred to an automated application that can control an account on social media. While contricting Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg's statements, Vestr said that democracy should take place in open where political s should be fact-checked, contricted, and n allowing a difference of opinions. She furr says that if information is exchanged only between Facebook and individual and people are micro-targeted, it does t remain democracy anymore inste it is, 'de facto manipulation of who you’re going to vote for'.

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Zuckerberg defends 'free speech'

Facebook says it won't remove 'newsworthy' content that goes against its community standards. Zuckerberg has defended Facebook's refusal to take down content it considers newsworthy “even if it goes against our standards”. Techlogy companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter are all reportedly trying to be in charge of internet content but at same time, y are also avoiding infringing on First Amendment rights. This has swung recently toward restricting hateful speech that could spawn violence. shift follows mass shootings in which suspects have posted racist screeds online or orwise expressed hateful views or streamed ims of attacks. However, Zuckerberg has also compared social media's capability to start a dialogue with 'fourth estate' which is referred to as media.

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(With inputs from ncies)