Facebook publicly tears itself apart over Mark Zuckerberg's decision to keep up Trump's posts about the George Floyd protests

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• Internal divisions at Facebook over moderating speech have, unusually, spilled out into the public.
• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday the company would leave up a post by President Trump which appeared to threaten US protesters. Twitter placed behind a block on the same post for "glorifying violence."
• Zuckerberg's decision appears to have enraged Facebook employees, many of whom publicly expressed their dismay on Twitter.
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Division at Facebook over upper management's response to posts by President Donald Trump is spilling out into the public sphere.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Friday that the platform would take no action against a post of Trump's about the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, in which the president said "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."

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• Mark Zuckerberg says he had a 'visceral negative reaction' to Trump's post about shooting protesters but says the post will stay on Facebook
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