for more than eight minutes on May 25, 2020, resulting in the death of the 46-year-old Black man. A bystander's video of the incident quickly went viral and protests erupted across the country.and Facebook accounts, the then-president wrote at 9:53 a.m.:"These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd and I won't let that happen.
Social media rival Twitter, meanwhile, responded quickly at the time by covering Trump's tweet with a warning and prohibiting users from sharing it any further. The internal analysis shows a five-fold increase in violence reports on Facebook, while complaints of hate speech tripled in the days following Trump's post. Reports of false news on the platform doubled. Reshares of Trump's message generated a"substantial amount of hateful and violent comments," many of which Facebook worked to remove. Some of those comments included calls to"start shooting these thugs" and"f—- the white.
On May 29, for example, Zuckerberg said the company looked closely to see if Trump's words broke any of its policies and concluded that they did not. Zuckerberg also said he left the post up because it warned people of Trump's plan to deploy troops. A Facebook spokesperson said that its internal controls do not always correctly predict when a post has violated rules and that human review, which was done in the case of Trump's post, is more accurate.
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