"I know many of you think we should have labeled the president's post somehow last week," Zuckerberg writes in a Facebook post.

"When the looting starts, the shooting starts" - so wrote President Donald Trump in an attention-grabbing Facebook post aimed at recent protests in the United States after American George Floyd died as a result of police overwhelm.    

Trump's Facebook post has been interpreted as a threat to protesters and was also posted on Twitter, where the post was marked with a warning about violent content.

But on Facebook, no warning flag was raised before the post.

Donald Trump himself denies that he has called for violence. At the same time, Mark Zuckerberg said that he was personally emotionally badly affected by Trump's statement but that due to the protection of freedom of speech, the post should be left so that each user could form their own opinion.

Internal criticism

Zuckerberg's attitude has been criticized internally, including by programmer Timothy Aveni, who has now resigned.

- ( Facebook, ed. Note ) will continue to push the boundaries every time Trump sharpens the tone and find excuse after excuse for not acting against increasingly dangerous rhetoric, writes Aveni according to TT.

The criticism seems to have taken hold and Mark Zuckerberg is now revising the course and is considering changing the rules for how posts should be handled. 

In a long Facebook post, Zuckerberg presented a list of seven areas on Saturday where the company will hold discussions on "improvement".

Reviewing policy

- We will review our rules regarding discussion on threats of state violence to review whether we should make any changes.

Zuckerberg further writes that there are two specific circumstances under the policy that Facebook will review:

- The first is about cases of excessive use of police or government forces. Given the sensitive history of the United States, this deserves special consideration. The second case is when a country has ongoing violent conflicts or great civil unrest.

The Facebook founder underlines in his statement that it is not certain that any changes will be made at all points.