{"id":36951,"date":"2021-01-09T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36951"},"modified":"2021-01-09T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:26:07","slug":"facebook-and-youtube-remove-trump-video-calling-extremists-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=36951","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and YouTube remove Trump video calling extremists &lsquo;special&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\"><a class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"facebook\">Facebook<\/a> and YouTube have removed a video posted by President Trump telling rioters who stormed Congress&#8221; we love you .&#8221; The same video was left online but blocked from being shared by Twitter just minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>A great deal of video and content from the chaotic scene in Washington, D.C. can be found on social media, but Trump&#8217;s commentary was spare. His posts hinted the rioters&#8221; remain peaceful ,&#8221; well after they had broken into the Capitol structures and Congress had been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>At about 5 PM Eastern time, Trump posted a video in which he reiterated that the election was  &#8221; misappropriate&#8221; but that&#8221; you have to go home now. Go home, we love you. You&#8217;re very special .&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>On <a class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"twitter\">Twitter<\/a> this was soon limited, with a large warning that&#8221; this Tweet can&#8217;t be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence .&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/06\/twitter-pop-up-trump-video-capitol-rally\/\">Twitter adds massive pop-up warning to Trump video telling Capitol hill rioters&#8217; we love you &#8216;<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"\"Twitter adds huge pop-up warning to Trump video telling Capitol Hill rioters 'we love you'\" -- TechCrunch\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/06\/twitter-pop-up-trump-video-capitol-rally\/embed\/#?secret=gE1M8Tg5pp\" data-secret=\"gE1M8Tg5pp\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Guy Rosen, VP of Integrity at Facebook, wrote on Twitter that&#8221; this is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump&#8217;s video. We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than decreases the risk of ongoing violence .&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>At Facebook there is some precedent for one of Trump&#8217;s posts was eliminated. In August, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/08\/05\/facebook-trump-false-covid-claim-fox-news\/\">company took down a video<\/a> in which Trump stated that children were&#8221; almost immune&#8221; to COVID-1 9, a dangerous and false claim not supported by science.<\/p>\n<p>As Twitter and Facebook crafted bespoke policies to address threats to the election contributing into November, YouTube mostly remained quiet. In early December, a month after the election, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/12\/09\/youtube-declares-war-on-us-election-misinformation-a-month-late\/\">the company announced<\/a> that it would begin removing content that shaped false-hearted claims that the U.S. election was affected by&#8221; widespread fraud or corrects .&#8221; YouTube&#8217;s decision to remove the president&#8217;s video on Wednesday aligned with that policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We removed a video posted this afternoon to Donald Trump&rsquo;s channel that violated our policies regarding content that alleges widespread hoax or corrects varied the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Election ,&#8221; a YouTube spokesperson told TechCrunch ,  expressed the view that the video is allowed if accompanied by proper context for &#8220;educational&#8221; value.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/06\/pro-trump-mob-storms-the-us-capitol-touting-stop-the-steal-conspiracy\/\">Pro-Trump mob hurricanes the US Capitol, touting&#8217; Stop the Steal&#8217; conspiracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"\"Pro-Trump mob storms the US Capitol, touting 'Stop the Steal' conspiracy\" -- TechCrunch\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/06\/pro-trump-mob-storms-the-us-capitol-touting-stop-the-steal-conspiracy\/embed\/#?secret=MySQHioR61\" data-secret=\"MySQHioR61\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-FUJwSnJQYM:X_h_aPZueso:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-FUJwSnJQYM:X_h_aPZueso:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-FUJwSnJQYM:X_h_aPZueso:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-FUJwSnJQYM:X_h_aPZueso:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=-FUJwSnJQYM:X_h_aPZueso:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-FUJwSnJQYM:X_h_aPZueso:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=-FUJwSnJQYM:X_h_aPZueso:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=-FUJwSnJQYM:X_h_aPZueso:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"> <\/img><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~4\/-FUJwSnJQYM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/-FUJwSnJQYM\/\">feedproxy.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and YouTube have removed a video posted by President Trump telling rioters who stormed Congress&#8221; we love you .&#8221; The same video was left online but blocked from being shared by Twitter just minutes ago. A great deal of video and content from the chaotic scene in Washington, D.C. can be found on social &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,28,2440,15761,263],"class_list":["post-36951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-facebook","tag-social","tag-tc","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-12304526131610162767.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}