{"id":22636,"date":"2020-03-06T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22636"},"modified":"2020-03-06T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T00:23:08","slug":"harris-presses-facebook-over-census-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=22636","title":{"rendered":"Harris presses Facebook over census misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qgghyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprhmdhmm_erdrbbysyfrbpybyztrz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qgghyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprhmdhmm_erdrbbysyfrbpybyztrz.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583626150033000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGfPc4Id2frbcVYgiOLOE2QVjL8qw\">pressing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0over how the social media giant intends to handle census-related misinformation after Facebook allowed President Trump&#8217;s reelection campaign to run misleading advertisements about the important demographics survey this week.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Zuckerberg on Thursday, Harris criticized Facebook for &#8220;failing&#8221; to enforce its own policies barring misinformation about the U.S. census. Harris, who recently dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, posed a series of questions around how Facebook plans to combat census misinformation in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope you recognize that Facebook&#8217;s ability to effectively combat misinformation during the 2020 census will presage your ability to combat similar misinformation during the upcoming elections,&#8221; Harris wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is only the latest Democrat to slam Facebook for running the misleading Trump ads, which redirected users searching for the &#8220;Official 2020 Congressional District Census&#8221; to the Trump campaign website. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday slammed the social media giant over the ads, which were first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ebhpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwprqprs_erdrbbysyfrbpybyztrz.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ebhpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwprqprs_erdrbbysyfrbpybyztrz.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583626150033000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE1jvrS1C2nS3Xn7fAXvg3hpwdC9g\">reported by<\/a>\u00a0political newsletter Popular Information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is, on the part of Facebook, a robust unacceptable interference in the census,&#8221; Pelosi said at a press conference Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is\u00a0pressing Facebook&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22637,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636\/revisions\/22637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}