Story about efforts to ‘protect
elections on Facebook’ gave company an uncritical platform to defend controversial policy
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Vogue published and then removed a story about
Facebook from its website on Wednesday after it was accused of hosting sponsored content for the tech giant without labeling it as such.
The confusing saga began when the Condé Nast publication on Wednesday published an article titled How Facebook Is Helping Ensure the Integrity of the 2020 Election. The story focused largely on how five female Facebook employees were “taking measures to protect against foreign interference and stop the spread of misinformation”, providing the social media company an uncritical platform to defend its policy of refusing to censor political advertisements ahead of the 2020 elections.