[paulydavis]

Zuckerberg knows he has a large conservative older user base. Losing them I bet is his concern

[mattbrewsbytes]

I think his concern is the amount of money from political campaigns this coming season. If that stuff was fact-checked, they would not be making as much money.

The side effect of people internet hating on stuff on FB is lots of ad revenue for FB (aka page views). It doesn't matter what side is what, if things on FB are fact checked then there is likely going to be less sharing since there would be less content.

[gopi]

Political ads are a tiny portion of FB revenues, just around 0.5%. In fact, they may be losing money on this as it needs a lot of manual moderation

[aforwardslash]

Political ads are not fact-checked, per FB policy - https://www.facebook.com/business/help/182222309230722

[ashtonkem]

That’s fair, but Zuckerberg has absolutely made his PR situation worse by creating high minded rules and applying them unequally.

[randyrand]

deleting them is way more controversy generating than not. companies avoid controversy.

[lysp]

to be fair, twitter didn't delete it - only hid it.

[xibalba]

To the general public these are effectively the same.