Snap says it has stopped promoting Trump's account in Discover, after a tweet from days ago about protesters at the White House meeting “ominous weapons”
my team on @PeteButtigieg's campaign relied on it to reach young voters during tentpole moments like debates, rapid response, and GOTV. https://twitter.com/... Tara McGowan / @taraemcg : Trump + @parscale only love social media platforms who serve their racist, violence-inciting rhetoric and disinformation campaigns without regulation. And they're absolutely terrified about losing the narrative on any social platform. So they throw empty threats. Total wussies. https://twitter.com/... Mike Ananny / @ananny : As with Twitter's treatment of Trump's tweets (note that Twitter doesn't *remove* them but uses interface+experience design to reduce their visibility), Snap isn't *promoting* Trump's tweets. We're very much in space of *probabilistic* speech governance: https://knightcolumbia.org/... https://twitter.com/... Brad Parscale / @parscale : Radical @Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel would rather promote extreme left riot videos & encourage users to destroy America than share positive words of unity, justice, and law & order from our President. They do not want conservatives on their platform. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ ... Casey Neistat / @casey : “We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice...” Snapchat taking a stand. I appreciate you @Snapchat - https://www.theverge.com/... Tom Dotan / @cityofthetown : It's worth noting that Evan Spiegel has often used controversial Facebook moments to promote Snap. Did it during FB's fake news scandal and the Snapchat redesign. https://twitter.com/... Kate Conger / @kateconger : I will never stop thinking about the fact that the online knitting community really led the charge here https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : Trump calls @evanspiegel radical, says Snapchat is trying to rig the election. Well, this is the response we expected. https://twitter.com/... @willsmith : Finally, a new Snapchat feature that Facebook can't rip off. https://twitter.com/... @joshconstine : Free speech doesn't necessitate free reach. If you won't delete hate, downrank it. https://twitter.com/... Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : Here's our story on today's decision https://www.bloomberg.com/... And a Trump campaign email from May, touting that he's better at Snapchat than Biden. https://twitter.com/... Edmund Lee / @edmundlee : noteworthy that the smaller the social network, the more stringently it polices Trump: https://www.nytimes.com/... Brian Fung / @b_fung : Here's Snap CEO Evan Spiegel's blog post: “We simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform.” https://press.snap.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn : In Dec 2017, Twitter said it would take action against users' accounts based on their behavior off-platform Today, Snapchat is taking a similar stance by banning Trump's account from appearing in Discover, after his tweets inciting violence. Bold move. https://www.axios.com/... Sara Fischer / @sarafischer : To be clear, Trump's account didn't violate any of Snapchat's rules. But Snapchat is deciding not to promote his account on Discover because of comments he made elsewhere that they think incite violence. That's going farther than other big tech firms. https://twitter.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Snap CEO @evanspiegel wrote in a memo to staff Sunday, “we simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform.” Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : SNAPCHAT takes a stand on Trump. “We are not currently promoting the President's content on Snapchat's Discover platform. We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover,” a @Snapchat spokesperson says. Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski : Snap is saying it made this decision based on comments that didn't even happen on its own service — this is in response to tweets. https://twitter.com/... Steven Overly / @stevenoverly : Snap will stop promoting Trump's account — based on his rhetoric on another social media site, @nytimes reports. That's a step beyond other social networks, which have taken action based on posts to their own platforms. https://twitter.com/... Sean Hollister / @starfire2258 : Your turn, @jack. If you do it too, Zuck might finally be under enough pressure to follow, and Silicon Valley will have finally made a meaningful effort to redeem itself. https://twitter.com/... Jack Jenkins / @jackmjenkins : Silicon Valley, it seems, is increasingly unhappy with Trump. https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
....have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That's when people would have been really badly hurt, at least. Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. “We put the young ones on the front line, sir, they love it, and....
Earlier this summer I wrote a story about how Snapchat was going to be crucial for the youth vote because of coronavirus. And Trump's campaign was getting traction there, especially by making content that appeared frequently on the Discover page. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Snap is pulling Trump's account from the “For You” section of Discover as a result of his tweets. The company says it won't give “free promotion” to “voices who incite racial violence and injustice.” https://www.engadget.com/...
Kudos to @Snapchat for taking a stand. 3 thoughts: 1. A candidate's ability to land on the Discover page during tentpole moments is huge—my team on @PeteButtigieg's campaign relied on it to reach young voters during tentpole moments like debates, rapid response, and GOTV. https:/…
Trump + @parscale only love social media platforms who serve their racist, violence-inciting rhetoric and disinformation campaigns without regulation. And they're absolutely terrified about losing the narrative on any social platform. So they throw empty threats. Total wussies. h…
As with Twitter's treatment of Trump's tweets (note that Twitter doesn't *remove* them but uses interface+experience design to reduce their visibility), Snap isn't *promoting* Trump's tweets. We're very much in space of *probabilistic* speech governance: https://knightcolumbia.or…
Radical @Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel would rather promote extreme left riot videos & encourage users to destroy America than share positive words of unity, justice, and law & order from our President. They do not want conservatives on their platform. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/ .…
“We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice...” Snapchat taking a stand. I appreciate you @Snapchat - https://www.theverge.com/...
It's worth noting that Evan Spiegel has often used controversial Facebook moments to promote Snap. Did it during FB's fake news scandal and the Snapchat redesign. https://twitter.com/...
I will never stop thinking about the fact that the online knitting community really led the charge here https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Here's our story on today's decision https://www.bloomberg.com/... And a Trump campaign email from May, touting that he's better at Snapchat than Biden. https://twitter.com/...
Here's Snap CEO Evan Spiegel's blog post: “We simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform.” https://press.snap.com/... https://twitter.com/...
In Dec 2017, Twitter said it would take action against users' accounts based on their behavior off-platform Today, Snapchat is taking a similar stance by banning Trump's account from appearing in Discover, after his tweets inciting violence. Bold move. https://www.axios.com/...
To be clear, Trump's account didn't violate any of Snapchat's rules. But Snapchat is deciding not to promote his account on Discover because of comments he made elsewhere that they think incite violence. That's going farther than other big tech firms. https://twitter.com/...
Snap CEO @evanspiegel wrote in a memo to staff Sunday, “we simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform.”
SNAPCHAT takes a stand on Trump. “We are not currently promoting the President's content on Snapchat's Discover platform. We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover,” a @Snapchat spokesperson says.
Snap is saying it made this decision based on comments that didn't even happen on its own service — this is in response to tweets. https://twitter.com/...
Snap will stop promoting Trump's account — based on his rhetoric on another social media site, @nytimes reports. That's a step beyond other social networks, which have taken action based on posts to their own platforms. https://twitter.com/...
Your turn, @jack. If you do it too, Zuck might finally be under enough pressure to follow, and Silicon Valley will have finally made a meaningful effort to redeem itself. https://twitter.com/...