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Today is Constitution Day in America. In Israel, it is Election Day. Pamela Geller links to the Jewish Press report:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
Facebook chatbot was suspended on Tuesday, on elections day, after it published
polling results.
Publishing polling results in the
days prior to elections day is illegal in Israel.
“We work with election committees
around the world to help maintain the purity of elections. Our policy specifically
states that developers are required to comply with all applicable laws in the
country where their app is available. Therefore, we have suspended the bot
activity in violation of local law until the polls close,” Facebook stated.
Netanyahu accused Facebook of
buckling to left-wing pressure.
Ms. Geller introduced this report with:
President Trump and the GOP better
pay attention, this is a testing ground for the real show, your re-election.
So in Israel, it's against the law to publish polling results before
the election. If memory serves, before the 2016 US election, the news
outlets were wall-to-wall poll results. Facebook will merely need another reason.
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