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Facebook, YouTube ban naming Trump impeachment whistleblower
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IANS | 09 Nov, 2019
Facebook and Google-owned
YouTube have banned content on their platform that purports to name the
whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment inquiry against US
President Donald Trump.
The decision came after Facebook took down ads purporting to name the whistleblower earlier this week.
"Any
mention of the potential whistleblower's name violates our coordinating
harm policy, which prohibits content aouting of witness, informant, or
activist," Facebook said in a statement on Friday.
"We are
removing any and all mentions of the potential whistleblower's name and
will revisit this decision should the name be widely published in the
media or used by public figures in debate," the spokesperson added.
According to The Verge, a search for the whistleblower's name on Facebook did not elicit many results.
YouTube
confirmed to CNN that it would remove content that mentioned the
alleged whistleblower's name in the title, the description, or the video
itself.
Twitter, however, said it would not the whistleblower's name on its platform, said the report.
Trump
had called for the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry
to be unmasked, ignoring a cease-and-desist warning.
A lawyer for a whistleblower told the White House that Trump's rhetoric was placing his client and family in physical danger.
Undeterred by the letter, Trump renewed his attacks on the whistleblower and lawyer on Friday, reports the BBC.
The individual's identity has so far been fiercely guarded by Democrats.
In August, the whistleblower filed a report that eventually triggered impeachment proceeding against Trump.
The
report expressed concern over a phone call a month earlier in which
Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate
Joe Biden, a Democratic front-runner for the 2020 US presidential
election.
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