Leaked Facebook documents provide a first-hand look at how Donald Trump's social media posts ignited more anger in an already deeply divided country that was eventually lit 'on fire' with reports of hate speech and violence across the platform.
The reports of hateful and violent posts on Facebook started pouring in on the night of May 28 last year, soon after then-U.S. President Donald Trump sent a warning on social media that looters in Minneapolis would be shot.
"When people look back at the role Facebook played, they won't say Facebook caused it, but Facebook was certainly the megaphone," said Lainer Holt, a communications professor at Ohio State University. "I don't think there's any way they can get out of saying that they exacerbated the situation." Hate speech and violence reports had been mostly limited to the Minneapolis region after Floyd's death, the documents reveal.
Facebook says it's impossible to separate how many of the hate speech reports were driven by Trump's post itself or the controversy over Floyd's death. "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 on his Facebook account the night of May 29, as protests erupted around the country."Our violence and incitement classifier was almost 90% certain that this post violated Facebook's ...
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