Mark Zuckerberg is officially the editor-in-chief of the world’s largest news organization, though he may not know it yet. However, a report in the Wall Street Journal suggests that the buck stops with Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg decided not to remove posts by Donald Trump, despite the fact that they violated the company’s rules barring hate speech, according to the report. “Mr Zuckerberg acknowledged that Mr Trump’s call for a ban [of Muslims] did qualify as hate speech, but said the implications of removing them were too drastic,” the Wall Street Journal reported. That context can include the value of political discourse,” Facebook said in response to the Wall Street Journal article.

Source: The Guardian October 21, 2016 23:34 UTC