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Facebook Defends Leaving Up Trump's Post Implying Minneapolis 'Looters' Be Shot

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‘I disagree strongly with how the President spoke about this, but I believe people should be able to see this for themselves,’ Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
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Facebook is justifying its decision to leave up a post from President Trump that implied protesters in Minneapolis should be shot, arguing that it’s free speech.
“I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up, but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Friday.
Not everyone will agree with Zuckerberg’s view. Facebook’s rival, Twitter, placed a warning label on the same post from Trump, which mentions sending the National Guard to control the protests in Minneapolis. At one point the post says, “Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” an apparent reference to a quote a Miami police chief said in 1967 during a crackdown on black neighborhoods.
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According to Twitter, the line violates the company’s policy on glorifying violence. So in response, the social media platform has placed the tweet behind a warning label, which also prevents additional users from retweeting or liking the content. (Credit: Twitter)
However, the same post from the president has remained up on Facebook and Instagram, allowing it to attract over 600,000 likes and reactions collectively on both platforms.
Zuckerberg said he personally disagrees with the language used in Trump’s post about the protests in Minneapolis.

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