While Twitter demoted and placed a warning on a tweet about the protests that read, in part, that “when the looting starts the shooting starts,”
“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,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Trump's comment evoked the civil-rights era by borrowing a phrase used in 1967 by Miami’s police chief to warn of an aggressive police response to unrest in black neighborhoods.
On Monday,
“I work at
Toff, who has a verified Twitter account, had 131,400 “likes” and thousands of retweets of his comment. He did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Monday.
“I don’t know what to do, but I know doing nothing is not acceptable. I’m a FB employee that completely disagrees with Mark’s decision to do nothing about Trump’s recent posts, which clearly incite violence. I’m not alone inside of FB. There isn’t a neutral position on racism,” tweeted another employee, design manager
Stirman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
“I believe that this is a self-imposed constraint and implore leadership to revisit the solution,” she continued.
Zhang declined to comment to The Associated Press.
Representatives for
Late Sunday, Zuckerberg again posted on Facebook, pledging a
Floyd, a black man who was in handcuffs at the time, died after a white police officer ignored bystander shouts to get off him and Floyd’s cries that he couldn’t breathe. His death, captured on citizen video, sparked days of protests in
“We need to know George Floyd’s name. But it’s clear
Twitter has historically taken stronger stances than its larger rival, including a complete ban on political advertisements that the company announced last November.
That’s partly because
Over the weekend, Twitter changed the background and logo if its main Twitter account to black from its usual blue in support of the
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