Mark Zuckerberg says he had a 'visceral negative reaction' to Trump's post about shooting protesters but says the post will stay on Facebook (FB)

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• Facebook is not taking any action against one of Donald Trump's posts that warned of "shooting" in Minneapolis following protests.
• Twitter previously said that the post on its site violated its rules on "glorifying violence" and affixed a warning to it.
• Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he had a "visceral negative reaction" to Trump's rhetoric.
• However, it does not violate Facebook's rules, he said.
• The phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" was previously used by a Southern police chief during civil rights unrest in the 1960s, but Trump has since professed ignorance of this.
• Do you work at Facebook? Contact this reporter at rprice@businessinsider.com or 650-636-6268.

Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence on Donald Trump's social media posts warning about "shooting" protesters in Minneapolis to say that while he had a "visceral negative reaction" to it, it doesn't break Facebook's rules and won't be taken down.

The social network has been embroiled in a firestorm of controversy over the past day, after the US President posted on multiple social media sites that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," in response to the heated protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd. Twitter affixed a warning label to to Trump's tweet, saying it broke its rules on "glorifying violence," but Facebook took no immediate action against Trump's post on its platform, remaining silent and ignoring numerous requests for clarification from the press as well as from its own employees.

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