Civil rights leaders say they're 'disappointed and stunned' after call with Facebook's Zuckerberg
Leaders of three civil rights groups, Color of Change, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, released the statement after a Monday night Zoom call with Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.
"We are disappointed and stunned by Mark's incomprehensible explanations for allowing the Trump posts to remain up," wrote the leaders, Rashad Robinson of Color of Change, Vanita Gupta of the Leadership Conference and Sherrilyn Ifill of LDF. "He did not demonstrate understanding of historic or modern-day voter suppression and he refuses to acknowledge how Facebook is facilitating Trump's call for violence against protesters.
In a post on both Twitter and Facebook Friday, Trump addressed recent protests over the killing of George Floyd while in police custody, saying, "Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts." While Twitter that it violates the company's rules about "glorifying violence," Facebook took no action on the post on its platform.
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