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Trump’s tweet calling for “looters” in Minneapolis to be gunned down was also posted on Facebook Facebook has a policy banning “Statements advocating for high-severity violence” While politicians are exempt from fact-checking, they are not exempt from Community Starndards

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After Twitter posted a warning on Trump's tweet for glorifying violence, Trump posted it again from the official White House account. Meanwhile, the identical message on Facebook has been shared 37K times in 7 hours and has 128K reactions

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Gupta runs

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Facebook will not follow its own rules when it comes to Trump. Harm is immense. Twitter is unafraid and standing by its own standards and policies regardless of who violates them. The two companies are a stark contrast at the moment in courage and principle. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…

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Twitter won't be bullied. Still nothing from Facebook.

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"If anyone, including a politician, is saying things that is calling for violence or risks imminent physical harm...we will take that content down." -- Mark Zuckerberg, under oath to

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Trump's message was also posted on Facebook-owned Instagram, where it has over 300K likes

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Facebook's response to all of this, BTW, has been nothing. I put an inquiry in at 6AM and have heard nothing back. And the company did not respond to CNN or any other news outlet, as far as I can tell

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He lied.

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So he lied under oath? Double standard as per usual.

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#Zuckerbergisaboldfacedliar

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Zuck... sucks!

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Yeah, right.

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Or, hear me out, we do the high school boy defense and retroactively say everything was "being ironic" when convenient

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These Violent Delights Have Violent Ends

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Lying under oath. Oh well...to prison then, no?

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