Nancy Pelosi slams Facebook over misinformation during polls, calls it 'part of problem'

Speaker of US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has slammed Facebook for allowing disinformation to spread over social media and said that it was “part of problem.”  Her remarks came in response to a question about efforts being made by tech giants to curb spread of disinformation. "I don't kw what y have been doing but I kw y've been part of problem, all along,." top democrat told journalists.

While US media outlets have projected Democrat Joe Biden as winner of 46th Presidential elections, incumbent President Donald Trump has deunced results calling elections ‘fraudulent’. Meanwhile, Facebook and Twitter have taken a stance and have slapped a warning mess on many posts by Trump and his supporters. In addition, both Facebook and Google, have anunced that y would continue ir ban of politically oriented advertisements.

In it's latest move, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook has banned a large group named “Stop Steal” that is created by supporters of US President Donald Trump in a bid to organise demonstrations against vote count. In same group, some of members even suggested violent approaches to deal with situation of Democratic Challenger Joe Biden leading in some states while ors accused rivals of “stealing” elections from Republicans. 

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However, group had included over 350,000 members before social network took it down. While vote counting for presidential election stretched for several days, “Stop Steal” was one of several smaller groups that were created on Facebook by Trump supporters who tried to ensure that y would get around moderators of social media and “trolls” who might report or block m. Facebook, in a statement, ackwledged group and said that it attempted to “delegitimise” election process.

Accused of encouraging misinformation 

Social media companies have increasingly been accused of t doing eugh and allowing false information and hate speech to spread for too long. Recently, Facebook and Twitter also attracted criticism after y limited spread of a New York Post article which alleged misuse of power by Joe Biden’ son Hunter. Many conservatives have also accused social media of being biased towards democrats.

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