Biden campaign assails Facebook for 'haggling’ with Trump over his online posts

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign demanded that Facebook prevent misuse of its platform by President Donald Trump to spread “hateful content” and misleading claims about mail-in voting ahead of the November election. The letter, signed by Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s campaign manager, raised particular concern about revelations in a Washington Post article about Facebook’s history of reworking its policies to accommodate inflammatory rhetoric and false claims from Trump, dating to his time as a candidate in 2015. The story recounted efforts by Facebook executives to persuade Trump to tweak or delete a post about sending in the military to quell the protests in Minneapolis in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in police custody. The letter also makes requests, including that Facebook remove previous Trump posts that claimed, without evidence, that voting by mail, which has been widespread in numerous states for years, is a source of electoral fraud.