Zuckerberg proves he is Facebook's editor by allowing Trump's hate speech
by Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#1YXD5)
Deciding to make judgments about the newsworthiness of content is a major shift for the social media platform whose CEO insists it is 'not a media company'
Mark Zuckerberg is officially the editor-in-chief of the world's largest news organization, though he may not know it yet.
Two news items on Friday suggest that Facebook is instituting editorial standards analogous to those of a newspaper - and that Zuckerberg has the final say in matters of editorial judgment.
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