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"How do you deal with the fact that Facebook is now being used to organize a lot of these protests to defy social distancing guidelines in states," the "Good Morning America" anchor asked Zuckerberg. "If somebody trying to organize something like that, does that qualify as harmful misinformation?" 

"We do classify that as harmful misinformation and we take that down," Zuckerberg said. "At the same time, it's important that people can debate policies so there's a line on this, you know, more than normal political discourse. I think a lot of the stuff that people are saying that is false around a health emergency like this can be classified as harmful misinformation."

The revelation by Zuckerberg comes after President Trump and the White House coronavirus task force last week unveiled a three-phase plan for reopening the U.S. economy, with individual governors ultimately deciding how and where the phased re-openings would occur based on specific criteria levels.

“You’re going to call your own shots,” Trump told governors during a conference call. “We’re going to be standing alongside of you.”

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