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America ‘on fire’: Facebook watched as Trump ignited hate
Associated Press ^ | October 27, 2021 | Amanda Seitz

Posted on 10/27/2021 11:24:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai

The reports of hateful and violent posts on Facebook started pouring in on the night of May 28 last year, soon after then-President Donald Trump sent a warning on social media that looters in Minneapolis would be shot.

It had been three days since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the neck of George Floyd … […]

But it wasn’t until after Trump posted about Floyd’s death that the reports of violence and hate speech increased “rapidly” on Facebook across the country, an internal company analysis of the ex-president’s social media post reveals.

“These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd and I won’t let that happen,” Trump wrote at 9:53 a.m. on May 28 from his Twitter and Facebook accounts. “Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts the shooting starts!”

The former president has since been suspended from both Twitter and Facebook.

Leaked Facebook documents provide a first-hand look at how Trump’s social media posts ignited more anger in an already deeply divided country that was eventually lit “on fire” with reports of hate speech and violence across the platform. Facebook’s own internal, automated controls, meant to catch posts that violate rules, predicted with almost 90% certainty that Trump’s message broke the tech company’s rules against inciting violence.

Yet, the tech giant didn’t take any action on Trump’s message. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: amandaseitz; amyklobuchar; apepee; associatedpress; asspress; derekchauvin; facebook; fakenews; georgefloyd; internet; mediawingofthednc; minneapolis; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; socialmedia; tds; terroristassociated; trump
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Normal people watch as Amanda Seitz tries to ignite hate . . .
1 posted on 10/27/2021 11:24:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Antifa blm use Fakebook to burn cities for months on end and they did nothing about it and it won’t be mentioned by the libtard media. 🤪


2 posted on 10/27/2021 11:27:40 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Olog-hai

AP doesn’t even hide its bias anymore.

It’s no longer a legitimate news organization.


3 posted on 10/27/2021 11:28:45 AM PDT by JennysCool (Let's go, Brandon!)
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To: Olog-hai; upchuck

Ping


4 posted on 10/27/2021 11:29:56 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Olog-hai

I don’t read propaganda. Thanks anyway.


5 posted on 10/27/2021 11:32:41 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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Any resistance to the new world order is labeled as hate and terrorism. In a desperate attempt to prove that they are not hatters, many people just surrender to the new world order. Public shamming is a much more powerful weapon then I ever imagined. I fully understood this fact the second I saw all the so called conservative slink away in shame after Jan 6th.


6 posted on 10/27/2021 11:35:12 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: JennysCool

Associated Propaganda


7 posted on 10/27/2021 11:35:24 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: JoSixChip

hatters s/b haters


8 posted on 10/27/2021 11:36:43 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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[[Any resistance to the new world order is labeled as hate and terrorism.]]

That!


9 posted on 10/27/2021 11:36:45 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Olog-hai

Ill assume she means Trump himself and his followers were the target of the aforementioned “ignited hate”. I mean Facebook is a leftist bastion of supreme circle jerking. Its Trumps fault folks have been broken mentally simply because Trump exists and succeeds?


10 posted on 10/27/2021 11:39:01 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Olog-hai

Once upon a time the Ape Pee was considered a respectable, dependable and reliable news source.


11 posted on 10/27/2021 11:42:30 AM PDT by windsorknot
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I am curious as to what is the definition of a “violent post”. ? Or why no one will question this.


12 posted on 10/27/2021 11:42:36 AM PDT by NEMDF
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It sounds like the hate had already been ignited by social media


13 posted on 10/27/2021 11:45:26 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: Olog-hai

FACEBOOK ignited HATE.


14 posted on 10/27/2021 11:49:42 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: Olog-hai

Propagandabook.


15 posted on 10/27/2021 11:53:45 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. NEVER be a peaceful quiet slave in a new socialist America.)
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To: Olog-hai

The AP are a vipers’ nest of fascists.


16 posted on 10/27/2021 11:54:31 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd

George Floyd was a piece of sh*t and he killed himself with a drug overdose. A cop has been wrongfully convicted because the media demanded a scapegoat.

17 posted on 10/27/2021 11:55:16 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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America ‘on fire’: Facebook watched as Trump ignited hate
18 posted on 10/27/2021 12:04:35 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: JoSixChip

They got a lot of folks over a barrel. Goebbels would be proud.


19 posted on 10/27/2021 12:14:28 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Olog-hai

No one should depend on the Ass Press for information, though I’m sure libtards lap up their lies.


20 posted on 10/27/2021 12:44:43 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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