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1. Last year, Facebook and Twitter issued clear policies:

Publishing misinfo about voting methods is prohibited

But policies are useless if they aren't enforced

Yesterday, both companies refused to enforce their policies against Trump

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2. Trump posted that the absentee ballot applications sent to voters in Michigan were "illegal"

Trump said the same thing about the absentee ballots in Nevada.

Both claims are false and could suppress voting.

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3. Twitter's policy prohibits "misleading claims about voting procedures or techniques which could dissuade voters from participating."

Twitter told Popular Information that Trump's tweets don't violate that rule.

Huh?

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4. Twitter says that Trump's tweets don't violate its rules because Trump doesn't directly dissuade people from voting.

But that's not its policy.

Twitter's policy prohibits "misleading claims" that "COULD dissuade voters from participating"

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5. Virtually all of the reporting on Trump's tweets ignores the role of Facebook and Twitter and their policies prohibiting this kind of content

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6. When Facebook announced its policy last year, Zuckerberg made a point to say that politicians (including Trump) would NOT BE EXEMPT

Faced with a clear violation of its policy by Trump, Facebook declined to comment

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7. @vanitaguptaCR, the civil rights leader who helped write Facebook's policy, told me Trump's tweets are a clear violation.

Gupta said Trump's post create "fear" and "confusion" for people receiving voting materials, suppressing participation.

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8. The issue goes beyond two posts. Twitter and Facebook are empowering Trump to ignore rules designed to protect the integrity of the 2020 election. He is likely to make extensive use of that power over the next six months.

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Wow.

Before announcing that Trump's post suggesting "looters" should be gunned down would be allowed to remain on Facebook, despite the company's clear ban on content advocating violence ZUCKERBERG PERSONALLY CALLED TRUMP and had a "productive" call

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Zuckerberg did not disclose that he personally spoke with Trump in a lengthy statement about his decision.

It certainly seems relevant.
If any Facebook employees have thoughts on the news that Zuckerberg called Trump before making his decision, please contact me

jlegum@protonmail.com or shoot me a DM.

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"Certain conditions continue to exist in our society, which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots.

But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard.

And what is it that America has failed to hear?
"It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met.
"And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality and humanity.

And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay.
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1. On Facebook's internal message board, Facebook employees overwhelming oppose Zuckerberg's decision to keep up Trump's post calling on "looters" to be gunned down, Facebook sources tell me

One person asked if the decision could be appealed to the new Oversight Board...
2. The answer was NO because the Oversight Board was not ready to hear cases because DUE TO COVID-19 they DON'T HAVE LAPTOPS YET

Here's the text of the response from Facebook Comms
3. I'm told that out of 750 or so comments on Facebook's internal message board, only 10 to 20 supported leaving Trump's posts up

I'll have more reporting on this in the days to come

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