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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jun 6, 2020, 09:02 PM Jun 2020

Facebook, Instagram Take Down Trump George Floyd Posts Over Alleged Copyright Violations

Facebook and Instagram claim Donald Trump’s video tributes for George Floyd violated copyright laws, and therefore took them down. The move follows a similar decision by Twitter.

The removed items included videos narrated by Trump that talked about Floyd’s death while a montage of photographs and videos appear. The alleged violations stemmed from those images.

The incident comes as Trump continues to contend that social media outlets have too much power. He has signed an executive order and asked regulators to consider whether they should be considered publishers responsible for content decisions. Currently, the Communications Decency Act shields them.

Twitter put fact-checking and warning labels on Trump content, but Facebook did not on the same post

https://deadline.com/2020/06/facebook-instagram-take-down-trump-george-floyd-posts-over-alleged-copyright-violations-1202952669/

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Facebook, Instagram Take Down Trump George Floyd Posts Over Alleged Copyright Violations (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Ouch, That's Gotta Hurt sfstaxprep Jun 2020 #1

sfstaxprep

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1. Ouch, That's Gotta Hurt
Sat Jun 6, 2020, 09:05 PM
Jun 2020

Social Media is one of Drumpf's weapons. Without the ability to Tweet 1,000 times a day, he's going to go crazy. The More of these that get taken down, the better. If one of them actually suspends his account, even temporarily, he'll go off the rails.

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