Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].
Facebook creator and founder Mark Zuckerberg said the shocking events on Capitol Hill in the last 24 hours "clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and legal transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden.
In a statement, the entrepreneur noted that the decision of the still president of the United States to use the Facebook platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his followers has rightly disturbed people in the country and around the world.
"We withdrew these statements yesterday because we judge that their effect, and probably their intention, would be to provoke more violence," he said in the statement issued this morning.
He added that after the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the entire country must now be "to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after the inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms.
Zuckerberg noted that over the past few years, "we have allowed President Trump to use our platform according to our own rules, sometimes removing content or tagging his posts when they violate our policies.
This, he said, is because the public has a right to the widest possible access to political discourse, even if it is controversial. "But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving the use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.
In that sense, he stressed that the risks of allowing the president to continue using the Facebook service during this period are simply too great.
"Therefore, we are extending the blockade we have placed on their Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and at least for the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is completed," he concluded.
