Three top Senate Democrats are urging Facebook to be more transparent about an internal policy that allows gun sellers to violate the company’s prohibition against peer-to-peer firearm sales 10 times before they are kicked off the platform.
Sen. Edward J. Markey , Sen. Robert Menendez and Sen. Amy Klobuchar sent a letter to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, requesting documentation about how the company’s “strikes” system, which gives users who break the company’s rules a specific number of passes and a tiered system of punishments, applies to guns. The senators also asked for copies of all instructions given to content moderators about guns in the past year.
“Facebook’s 10-strike policy is unwarranted and dangerous,” the lawmakers wrote. “Giving users multiple opportunities to sell weapons that can end up in the wrong hands is a loophole that calls into question Facebook’s representations about and commitment to ending gun sales on its platform.
, which is focused on keeping guns away from potential killers while also bulking up the nation’s mental-health-care capacity with billions of dollars in new funding. The legislation is expected to pass the House on Friday., using internal documents and interviews with current and former employees, that Facebook’s internal punishment system is far more lenient for gun sellers than it is for violators of other rules, such as sharing child pornography.
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