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YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are scrambling to moderate posts from Trump surrogates threatening 'total war' and beheadings as the election comes down to Pennsylvania

YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook raced on Thursday to take action against tweets from Trump surrogates calling for violence over the election results in violation of the platforms' policies.

In some cases, the platforms' algorithms and moderation teams caught posts relatively quickly, while many others have been widely viewed in what has become a rapid-fire, massive game of cat-and-mouse between the platforms and conservatives seeking to undermine Americans' confidence in the election results.Social media platforms on Thursday scrambled to take action against several posts from Trump surrogates calling for violence over the election results.

Twitter also banned the account of close Trump ally Steve Bannon for making violent threats. Twitter's policy states the company "will immediately and permanently suspend any account found to be posting violent threats."

 

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Everyone doing so is committing Sedition.

It’d save YouTube, twitter and fb a lot of energy by just deactivating their accounts. :)

God Bless America

SAI the whole family are mentally sick. they should be in jail not the WH

So they are covering these folks instead of identifying them? Sounds about white

'The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.' - Albert Einstein

remember .. proud boys stand back and stand by ... that is what he meant apparently

Wouldn’t it be fitting that the place where democracy was born, it where it ends up dying.

This coming from people who praise God?!? Their true colors are already being shown.

TwitterSupport is moving too slowly taking down links to it. People idiotically tweeting the footage to highlight youtube hasn't removed it. 🤦‍♀️

And they say the democrats are the violent ones

thisisinsider Beheadings?

Can the Babies of the leopard change their spots?

Shouldn’t they be arrested for inciting violence? They’re making homegrown terrorists to keep their corrupt asses out of prison. What a disgrace.

beheadings say what

or Arizona and Nevada

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As expected.....

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