Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told analysts in a call to the convention Thursday night that the company planned to post notices in the most sensitive user feeds on November 3, discrediting any claims by any of the US presidential applicants. But it’s not the first time That they won the election if I thought so. premature claim.
“If a candidate or crusader tries to claim victory before the final effects are announced, we will put a rating on people’s most sensitive Facebook and Instagram feed to let them know that the effects are still definitive and put an informative tag on the candidate’s position,” Zuckerberg said.
This decision, Zuckerberg said, is made because “there is a threat of civil unrest across the country, and given that, corporations like ours want to go far beyond what they did before. “
The call of the analyst convention followed a third-quarter earnings report Thursday afternoon in which Facebook’s effects exceeded expectations, aided by gains from active users that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations.
Zuckerberg said Facebook “has helped 4. 4 million people register [to vote], exceeding the goal we set ourselves this summer. “
The company also refused to accept new political classified ads this week, Zuckerberg said. “We are doing this because sometimes I think the most productive antidote to bad speech is more discourse, in the last days of an election, there would possibly only be not enough time to challenge new claims.
Despite Facebook’s strong bottom line, competition in the online advertising market may have benefited facebook in the last quarter of boycotting facebook through some of the quarter’s top advertisers. The Pinterest image sharing site exceeded expectations on Wednesday, as did Twitter on Thursday.
Analysts hope that some of the corporations have been helped through the advertising budget on Facebook and transferred to other networks.
More than 80 million U. S. voters voted in the presidential election, an estimate compiled through the U. S. Election Project at the University of Florida, Reuters reported Thursday.
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