About Facebook's decision not to remove 'fake news' from its website during the 2019 Federal election, then answer the questions below:

1. Would Milton Friedman agree or disagree with Facebook's statement that their primary obligation is to 'respect applicable law'?

Give at least two reasons Friedman would give for holding this view .

2.Besides shareholders, who are two other narrow stakeholders R. Edward Freeman would think Facebook has an ethical obligation to in this case. For each stakeholder, explain what arguments Freeman would provide for why Facebook should consider their views .

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Facebook says it was 'not our role' to remove fake news during Australian election

Exclusive: Facebook executive Simon Milner says company 'only removes content that violates our community standards

Facebook has declared it is not "our role to remove content that one side of a political debate considers to be false" in a final, positive, self-assessment of its actions in response to the death tax misinformation circulating on the platform during the May federal election.

In correspondence seen by Guardian Australia, Simon Milner, the Singapore-based vice-president of the social media giant in the Asia-Pacific, tells Labor's outgoing national secretary, Noah Carroll: "I understand that your preference would be for Facebook to remove all content that you believe constitutes misinformation - which in this instance mean all content that discussed whether or not Labor intends to introduce a death tax - rather than demote it; however Facebook only removes content that violates our community standards.

"We do not agree that is our role to remove content that one side of a political debate considers to be false," Milner says in the letter sent a month after election day.

The Facebook executive says the company invested significantly in an effort to support "the Australian government's work to safeguard the 2019 election" and said the requirement for the social media giant was to "respect applicable law" and work with the Australian Electoral Commission by responding to queries or concerns.

The backwards and forwards between Labor and the social media behemoth comes as Facebook is firmly in the sights of Australia's competition and consumer regulator as a consequence of its landmark review of digital platforms.