Social-Media
The Trump administration aims to provide police protesters with social media outlets
As the Washington Post first published, the Trump administration sent letters to social media companies requesting action to declare statues, violence and curfews.
The Homeland Security Department's interim director, Chad Wolf, has sent letters to Facebook CEOs, to Twitter, Snap, Apple and Alphabet, its shareholder in Google.
Wolf states in a copy of one of The Verge 's letters that "crimes such as burglaries, vandalism, aggravated assaults, anxiety, loots, and the defacing of public property" were observed by DHS agents as well as that "perpetrators used social media to plot, coordinate and carry out these crimes"
The letters came amid weeks of demonstrations in the United States and all over the world against police brutality and racism. Many of these statues, sometimes from municipal leaders and sometimes impromptu demonstration groups, were taken away in commemoration to Confederate Military Leaders and other historical figures of white supremacy.
Many businesses already have policies that prohibit violence-inducing content.
President Trump's tweets, including one involving the use of "extreme force," were previously etiquetered by Twitter when an autonomous area such as the one in Seattle was formed in Washington , DC.
Facebook also has policies to glorify violence, even though Twitter decided to restrict a recent post by Trump.
Facebook has tried to limit the spread of what are known as 'boogaloo' groups representing extremists of the right in the run-up to the upcoming second US civil war.
Three men in Nevada who were self-identified and arrested by the FBI in a terrorist charge for planning a spurt of violence during the anti-police protest in Las Vegas on June 4 were associated with violence by those groups.
However, several of them remain on the site given the attempts by Facebook to restrict the categories.
The letters do not form part and have no legal force in an official proceeding.
It is also unclear if the companies are going to agree to take action in relation to the articles. However, Trump's administration continues to examine how legal authorities can be used to behave as violent or illegal for social media posts.
At the end of May, the president signed a Management Order that would result in reverse protection companies being exempt from the legal liability on much of the content they posted on their platforms pursuant to Section 230 of the Act on the Communications Decency.
