Why is InfoWars allowed on Facebook? Zuckerberg: Because it doesn’t cause “harm”

Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., holds his phone after the morning session at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Friday, July 13, 2018. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Last week, Facebook invited some media outlets to an event to hear what the company plans on doing about misinformation disseminated on its platform.

But many journalists, including CNN's Oliver Darcy, were left dissatisfied with Facebook's response.

Facebook invited me to an event today where the company aimed to tout its commitment to fighting fake news and misinformation.

I asked them why InfoWars is still allowed on the platform.

I didn't get a good answer.https://t.co/WwLgqa6vQ4

- Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 12, 2018

So why won't Facebook ban sites that peddle obviously false information, like InfoWars?

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