More than 140 Zuckerberg-Funded Scientists call on Facebook to Rein in Donald Trump

Many scientists doing research funded by Mark Zuckerberg have said that President Donald Trump should not use Facebook to ‘spread misleading information and make inflammatory statements’. Other researchers, including 60 professors from a leading US research institute, wrote a letter to the CEO of Facebook on Saturday demanding that a strict policy should be adopted on the use of misleading information and inflammatory language.

In a letter to Zuckerberg, the professors said that they should consider a strict policy on “misleading information and inflammatory language that harms people,” especially at a time when the situation remains sensitive to racial injustice. Huh. In the letter, Harvard Medical School professor Deborah Marks said, “Researchers are opposed to some of Facebook’s steps, so we are motivating them to stick to the right side of truth and history and that is what we have written in the letter.” The letter has been signed by more than 160 researchers.

It specifically objected to Zuckerberg’s decision not to mark Trump’s post as a violation of the standards of the Facebook community. In that post, Trump wrote, “When the loot begins, the firing begins.” The post was made in the backdrop of demonstrations in Minneapolis. Researchers in the letter said the post was “clearly a statement provoking violence.” Unlike Facebook, Twitter has identified Trump’s tweet.