- Conscious of persistent charges of bias in its content rules, Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) relaxed the regulations for conservative pages despite policy violations, allowing the groups to spread false information penalty-free, NBC News reports.
- That's according to internal discussions that NBC reviewed.
- The relaxed rules meant pages run by Breitbart, former Fox News personalities Diamond & Silk, PragerU and Charlie Kirk weren't penalized for violating misinformation policy.
- The social network operates on a "strike" system, and the internal discussions showed Facebook employees in its escalations team, with direct oversight from leadership, removed strikes issued to conservative partners during the past six months - worried that complaints about fact-checking could go public and add fuel to complaints that Facebook was biased against conservatives.
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