Facebook has “some break-glass options available” including limiting the spread of certain content if the November election results in political instability, the company's head of global affairs told The Financial Times.
Facebook has “some break-glass options available” including limiting the spread of certain content if the November election results in political instability, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s head of global affairs,“There are some break-glass options available to us if there really is an extremely chaotic and, worse still, violent set of circumstances,” Clegg said.
Clegg noted that Facebook had acted aggressively in “other parts of the world” where there’s been instability, using what he called “pretty exceptional measures to significantly restrict the circulation of content on our platform." He did not provide any examples.Get breaking news and insider analysis on the rapidly changing world of media and technology right to your inbox.
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