By Jordan Davidson
Facebook removed President Donald Trump’s video calling for peace and rule of law, claiming it instigates more violence.
NBC: Facebook removes Trump video addressing rioters from its platform
— Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) January 6, 2021
According to Facebook’s vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, the big tech company removed the video, in which Trump told rioters to leave U.S. Capitol grounds, because “it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.”
“This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump’s video. We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence,” Rosen wrote.
This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump's video. We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.
— Guy Rosen (@guyro) January 6, 2021
In Trump’s message, the president clearly called for peace, law, and order, and asked the chaotic mob to go home.
“You have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt,” Trump said.
Shortly after Trump posted his message, Twitter also took action to censor it, barring users from liking, replying to, or even retweeting it.
“This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence,” the label reads.
While Trump’s video is littered with references to a “fraudulent election” that was “stolen from us,” he also spent a portion of his time urging the people who breached the most important federal building in the United States to go home.
If you haven’t dumped facebook, do it now.
No one elected them, and they and their board need to be brought up on sedition charges…now.
Lock them up!
DC mayor told locals not to mix with Trump supporters. Once again, it has all the earmarks of another Democrat coup and exploiting violence and tragedy.
@Nathan Blue:
Sedition? As in Facebook, by removing context of a president telling a mob in which he’s incited to violence that he loved them and they are “special people” means that FB is inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it?
Because, uh, no one elected Facebook?
The extent of lunacy you bellow out as you descend in the abyss of madness is remarkable.
@Ronald J. Ward: What part of Trump’s speech incited violence? It looks mighty suspicious, what with the arrival of ANTIFA operatives, that both Facebook and Twitter suddenly decided to block messages asking for everyone to calm down and go home. But, hell, you support a guy that openly cheered widespread election fraud, so no one expects you to see reason or facts.
Once again Facebook gives us more reasons to Boycott them