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Online divisions: Twitter, Facebook diverge on Trump's words

Online divisions: Twitter, Facebook diverge on Trump's words

3 years ago
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https://apnews.com/8cfbd52a1e1b008b036961e3d8bfa098

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump posted identical messages on Twitter and Facebook this week. But while the two social platforms have very similar policies on voter misinformation and glorifying violence, they dealt with Trump’s posts very differently, proof that Silicon Valley is far from a united front when it comes to political decisions

Twitter placed a warning label on two Trump tweets that called mail-in ballots “fraudulent” and predicted problems with the November elections. It demoted and placed a stronger warning on a third tweet about Minneapolis protests that read, in part, that “when the looting starts the shooting starts.”