Twitter Versus Facebook: Who Is Right About Content Verification?

Facebook employees are unhappy with their CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to act on comments by US President Donald Trump regarding anti-racist protests in the country. It all started last Friday when Zuckerberg said he disagreed with Twitter's interpretation of Trump's statement that included the phrase "When the looting begins, the shooting begins." Twitter took the statement as inciting police officers to fire on protesters. Rather, the Facebook CEO said he interpreted Trump's post as a warning to protesters that the police would shoot them, implying that the Facebook post would not be removed.

Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night - or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot. I don’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2020

Last week, Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, showed their differences regarding content verification. While Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with CNBC that social media should not verify the content that politicians publish, Dorsey said his intention is to display disputed information so that people can judge for themselves.

On Monday, May 27, George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis. Video footage showed an officer kneeling on Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes before he died. This has sparked riots in several cities in the US.

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