(Reuters) - Facebook Inc's <FB.O> chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, and some company executives have been discussing a "kill switch" to shut off political advertising after the election is over to curb misinformation, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
Facebook is looking at post-election scenarios that include attempts by U.S. President Donald Trump or his campaign to use the platform to delegitimize the results, according to the report https://nyti.ms/3aLpH1e.
The social media company has been under fire for exempting politicians' ads and speech from fact checks. Last year, smaller rival Twitter Inc <TWTR.N> banned political ads, but Facebook has maintained that it does not want to stifle political speech.
Twitter in recent months has added fact-checking labels and warnings to tweets by President Trump, including some of his tweets about mail-in voting. Facebook, which decided not to act on such content, has faced ...
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