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Twitter Labels Trump Tweet for 'Glorifying Violence'

It's the second time this week the platform has labeled or restricted the president's tweets

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The president's tweet about violence in Minnesota threatened that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."Getty Images
By Scott Nover

May 29, 2020

As an uprising ravaged Minneapolis, Minn., in the aftermath of the police killing of a black man, George Floyd, the president tweeted (at 12:53 a.m.):

Scott Nover

Scott Nover is a platforms reporter at Adweek, covering social media companies and their influence.

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