Facebook, which also owns Instagram, has made the extraordinary decision to remove all video content that has the President’s speech to protesters in the nation’s capital on Wednesday. The company is also removing photos from the protest from users’ news feeds.
In a statement, Facebook wrote,
First, we have been searching for and removing the following content:
- Praise and support of the storming of the US Capitol
- Calls to bring weapons to locations across the US — not just in Washington but anywhere in the US — including protests
- Incitement or encouragement of the events at the Capitol, including videos and photos from the protestors. At this point they represent promotion of criminal activity which violates our policies
- Calls for protests — even peaceful ones — if they violate the curfew in DC
- Attempts to restate violence tomorrow or in coming days
As a part of this, we removed from Facebook and Instagram the recent video of President Trump speaking about the protests and his subsequent post about the election results. We made the decision that on balance these posts contribute to, rather than diminish, the risk of ongoing violence.
Also today, Twitter locked President Donald Trumps Twitter account for 12 hours, an unprecedented move, and also blocked some of his recent posts from view.
Recent photos that Alaskans have sent to Must Read Alaska:
(Note: To prevent this news story from being censored by Twitter and Facebook, Must Read Alaska has chosen to illustrate it with skeletons. Enjoy!)
