WHAT positive words of unity?Snap Inc. announced Wednesday that it will no longer promote President Trump's Snapchat account after concluding that some of his tweets from over the weekend promoted violence.
His account will stay up on the social media platform, but will no longer be promoted on the app's Discover page, according to the company.
“We are not currently promoting the President’s content on Snapchat’s Discover platform," a spokesperson for Snap said in a statement to The Hill. "We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover. Racial violence and injustice have no place in our society and we stand together with all who seek peace, love, equality, and justice in America.”
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In a memo to workers posted publicly on Monday, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel addressed Trump's comments. "We will make it clear with our actions that there is no grey area when it comes to racism, violence, and injustice – and we will not promote it, nor those who support it, on our platform," he wrote while explaining the company's decision to stop promoting accounts that "incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform."
The Trump campaign released a statement Wednesday condemning Snapchat's decision, accusing the platform of trying to "rig" the election in likely Democratic nominee Joe Biden's favor.
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"Radical Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel would rather promote extreme left riot videos and encourage their users to destroy America than share the positive words of unity, justice, and law and order from our President," Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement.
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Well that makes no sense. I thought they would claim interference with the youth vote, but "voter suppression"? Because Snapchat doesn't promote Trump's shit?Parscale also accused the platform of "voter suppression" by no longer giving extra boosts in viewership to Trump's posts.
Cue the nasty tweets.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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