Meta users should have the choice to opt out of political content themselves and the company should reverse its policy on the issue given the importance of an election year, Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, wrote to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Javier Olivan Thursday, reports the Hill.
Meta in March stopped recommending political content from accounts that users don’t already follow after years of criticism about how it handled misinformation and whether it contributed to political polarization.
“I write to reiterate my concern about Meta Platforms, Inc.’s actions to proactively opt users out of political and social content across all platforms. I firmly believe that users should have the right to decide if they wish to opt out of ‘political and social content,’ not the platform,” Pfluger wrote in the memo.
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