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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.
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Netanyahu bot was suspended last week after it published “incitement.”
“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.
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