A tweet from US President Donald Trump about the clashes in Minneapolis (northern United States) was reported on Twitter on Friday for "condemning violence." "This tweet violates Twitter’s rules of praise for violence. However, Twitter believes it is in the public interest that this tweet remains accessible," the social network said. "When the looting begins, the shooting begins. Thank you!" Wrote Donald Trump in a message that could be interpreted as an incitement to the police to use their weapons.
Demonstrators torched a Minneapolis police station on Thursday evening during the third night of clashes with police, at the hands of which a black man died during a muscular arrest. Thousands of people witnessed the fire in the northern parts of the city, after some of them broke down the barriers that protected the building and smashed its windows. The police had deserted the police station, according to the police.
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President Trump, ulcerated by Twitter's attitude towards him, signed a decree Thursday to limit the protection of social networks and the latitude they enjoy in moderation of their content.
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Twitter posted messages from the President for the first time on Tuesday, adding "Check the facts". These were tweets claiming that postal voting was necessarily "fraudulent" because subject to manipulation, an ultra-sensitive issue in the middle of the election year.