Facebook page that copies President Trump's posts gets flagged for violence – when the president's didn't

Mod: Didn't Donald claim that he is #1 on Facebook? Maybe that comes with certain special privileges.

Facebook page that copies President Trump's posts gets flagged for violence – when the president's didn't (CBS Newslink): Facebook and the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg have come under fire in recent weeks after the social media platform declined to take action against President Trump's more inflammatory posts. While Twitter began flagging several of Mr. Trump's tweets for false statements and "glorifying violence," Facebook maintains that his posts do not violate its policies.

Now, a Facebook user has found a creative way to challenge that policy. The "Will they suspend me?"Facebook page was created as an experiment on June 4. The owner of the page copies and pastes all of Mr. Trump's posts verbatim to see if Facebook will flag any for violence or hurtful language.

This is an offshoot of the Twitter account @SuspendthePres, which was created for the same reason — to post the same content as Mr. Trump, to see if Twitter will flag or suspend the account.

On Thursday, one Facebook post, which was taken word-for-word from Mr. Trump's Facebook page, was flagged, a week after it was posted on the "Will they suspend me?" account.

"I can't stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis. A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard& get the job done right," the post read. "These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!"

Mr. Trump posted the above on his personal Facebook page on May 29 and it was not flagged by Facebook. However, the identical post on the "Will they suspend me?" page was removed.

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