(CNN Business) Facebook said Wednesday it will now remove content that urges Americans to report to the polls as unauthorized poll watchers if that content uses "militarized language" or when the intent behind the posts is to intimidate voters. Posts that use the word "army" or "battle" or that are implicitly threatening would fall under the ban, said Monika Bickert, Facebook's vice president of content policy, on a call with reporters. Facebook FB Twitter TWTR The new policy comes after Donald Trump Jr. posted a video online last month urging supporters to "join [an] army for Trump's election security." Bickert confirmed that under the new policy, Trump's video would be removed if it were posted again. Existing copies of the video posted to Facebook will be unaffected by the rule.

Source: CNN October 07, 2020 21:33 UTC