Nuked Facebook will not remove or take any other action on a president Trump post that Twitter removed for’glorifying violence’. Ceo Mark Zuckerberg said:’our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible’.
Facebook’looked very closely at the post that discussed the protests in Minnesota’. The company decided to leave it up because the National Guard references meant we read it as a warning about state action.
Zuckerberg noted that the original post was warning about the possibility that looting could lead to violence. In a later Tweet, Trump said that the post, which explicitly discouraged violence, also does not violate our policies and is important for people to see.
Twitter chose this week to add a link to two Trump tweets about mail fraud and hide another behind an interstitial warning for’glorifying violence’. Zuckerberg’s comments came after a day of sometimes agonizing debate within the company about whether to take action against Trump tweets that had been cross-posted to Facebook.
Facebook had made no comment about whether it intended to take action against Trump’s Tweet about the protests in Minneapolis. Some employees asked the company to intervene in posts on workplace, the company’s internal chat tool.
‘if we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly,’ one employee wrote in a comment about the shooting post.
Facebook has no policy about placing warning labels in front of posts that might incite violence. Zuckerberg said that if a post incites violence, it should be removed regardless of whether it comes from a politician.
I disagree strongly with how the president spoke about this, but I believe people should be able to see this for themselves,’ he said.
