The social network Snapchat, very popular with young people, accused on Wednesday Donald Trump of inciting the racial violence
and said it no longer promotes its posts on its Discover page, said a spokesperson.
The messages of the American president, which remain visible to subscribers to his account and appear when a user makes a specific search,
In the footsteps of Twitter
We are not going to amplify voices that incite racial violence and injustice by promoting them for free on Discover
, the network’s news feed where users can find news, recommendations, and media and well-known figures, the company said.
Snapchat joins Twitter which provoked the ire of the President of the United States last week, by putting warnings on the messages he sends to his more than 81 million subscribers.
The two networks have however chosen not to ban Donald Trump entirely.
Racial violence and injustice have no place in society and we stand in solidarity with all those who seek peace, love, equality and justice in America
, says Snapchat.
No Facebook censorship
This announcement, like that of Twitter, comes as hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating for more than a week across the country – sometimes violently – against police violence against visible minorities and in particular the black population.
The death of George Floyd, asphyxiated by a police officer while he was handcuffed and offering no resistance, at the end of May was the trigger for these demonstrations in a country already struck by a pandemic which made more than 100,000 dead and unemployed tens of millions of people.
Unlike Twitter or now Snapchat, Facebook, the first social network in the world has chosen not to report or censor in any way the messages of the American president.
A decision assumed by Mark Zuckerberg, the director and founder of Facebook, but criticized very publicly by part of the staff of the company.
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