It concluded that “if former President Trump makes a clear, public announcement that he is running for office, he would be considered a politician under our program policies.”Īndy Stone, a Meta spokesperson, said the memo was “a reiteration of our long-standing policy should not be news to anyone.” “We define a ‘politician’ as candidates running for office, current office holders – and, by extension, many of their cabinet appointees – along with political parties and their leaders,” the memo stated. Meta’s policy doesn’t stipulate that a candidate formally register with the Federal Election Commission. This includes the words a politician says as well as photo, video, or other content that is clearly labeled as created by the politician or their campaign.” The memo noted that “political speech is ineligible for fact-checking. The Meta memo sent to fact-checkers made clear that if Trump announced a 2024 presidential bid Tuesday night, he could no longer be fact-checked on the platform. “It is not our role to intervene when politicians speak,” Meta executive Nick Clegg, a former politician, said in 2019, defending the exemption. The company has long had an exception to its fact-checking policy for politicians. “Some of you have reached out seeking guidance regarding fact-checking political speech in anticipation of a potential candidacy announcement from former President Trump,” the Meta staffer wrote in the memo. The carve-out is not exclusive to Trump and applies to all politicians, but given the rate fact-checkers find themselves dealing with claims made by the former president, a manager on Meta’s “news integrity partnership” team emailed fact-checkers on Tuesday ahead of Trump’s announcement. Former Republican President Donald Trump says he's launching another White House bid
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