Snapchat follows in Twitter's footsteps and takes a stand against President Donald Trump. Twitter previously decided to start fact-checking the president's tweets and has flagged several of his updates by providing incorrect information and being violent.
Snapchat has decided to stop highlighting Trump's account because of tweets published on Saturday, the New York Times writes. In the posts, the president threatened to send "evil dogs" and weapons to the protests against racism and police violence that have spread across the United States after George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, choked to death in a police raid.
"Snapchat tries to rig the election""We simply cannot market accounts in America that are linked to people inciting racial violence, whether they do it on or off our platform," said Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat, in a memo published on Snapschat's own blog on Monday.
Snapchat will not remove the president's account from the platform, but has decided that the account will no longer be promoted on its Discover page where posts from high-profile users are presented.
Representatives of the White House have not responded to the New York Times request for comment on the decision, but Brad Parscale, who heads Trump's 2020 election campaign, accuses Evan Spiegel of "liberal bias" and says "Snapchat is trying to rig the 2020 election."
Facebook has chosen a different route from Snapchat and Twitter, and does not review politicians' ads on the platform.