Columnist sidelined after funny Trump bit was not ignoredThe Standard's Nury Vittachi was silenced on Facebook - for at least 24 hours - after the popular social media platform took down an item on US President Donald Trump that the columnist posted on his page. Reliable Sauce columnist Vittachi posted the article headlined "Call to Trump will be ignored we hope," but it was removed by Facebook - possibly after it was reported by other users. In the column, Vittachi mocked "the Trumpettes" - activists who praise Trump - and some made a tongue-in-cheek call for the United States to "invade Hong Kong." According to the columnist, the activist shouted in the video: "Come on, kill us all, shoot me! Facebook notified Vittachi that his post was removed because its content violated its community standards, listed in 2018.

Source: The Standard May 27, 2020 19:07 UTC