News Vocabulary: Facebook to end special treatment for politicians

This excerpt has been taken from an article that appeared in the Newspaper, Business Standard. The article talks about Facebook’s plans to end special treatment for politicians. It so happens, when a politician makes a statement or shares a post which is controversial in nature, Facebook allows it on its platform if it believes the public interest in seeing the post outweighs the risk of harm. But after the US capitol attack and suspension of Donald Trump’s Facebook account, the social media giant is making plans to end its controversial policy that mostly shields politicians from the content moderation rules that apply to other users. Watch the video to study some interesting vocabulary words from this excerpt.