Zuckerberg defends no action on Trump post

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is standing by his decision not to challenge inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump after staff members staged a rare public protest.

A group of Facebook employees - nearly all of them working at home due to the coronavirus pandemic - walked off the job on Monday.

They complained the company should have acted against Trump's posts about protests containing the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts".

Zuckerberg told employees Facebook had conducted a thorough review and was right to leave the posts unchallenged, a company spokeswoman said.

On Friday, Twitter attached a warning label to a Trump tweet about widespread protests over the death of African-American man George Floyd in Minnesota that included the same phrase.

Twitter said the post violated its rules against glorifying violence but was left up as a public interest exception, with reduced options for interactions and distribution.

Facebook declined to act on the same message, and Zuckerberg sought to distance his company from the fight between the president and Twitter.

He maintained that while he found Trump's remarks "deeply offensive", they did not violate company policy against incitements to violence.

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