Social media giant, Facebook, on Tuesday suspended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Facebook chatbot for the second time in less than a week, this time for “violating local laws”.
Facebook suspended Netanyahu’s chatbot for the remainder of election day after it illegally shared polling information, the Times of Israel reported.
“We’re working with elections officials around the world to help ensure the integrity of the elections. Our policy explicitly states that developers are required to obey all laws applicable in the country where their application is accessible,” a spokesperson for Facebook was quoted by the news portal as saying.
“Therefore we’ve suspended the (Netanyahu) bot’s activity, in light of the violation of local law, until the close of the polls at 10 PM on Tuesday”, he added.
The social media giant had suspended a chatbot operated by Netanyahu’s official page for violating “hate speech policies” last Thursday after a message spread by his campaign warned that Arab Israeli politicians want to annihilate us all.
