Trump posted the message after anti-racism protesters on Monday declared a "Black House Autonomous Zone" - referencing a Seattle area taken over by activists known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) or Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone - in front of St. John's Episcopal Church near
- Twitter Inc on Tuesday placed a warning notice on a tweet by President Donald Trump threatening"serious force" against protesters in the U.S. capital, the second time it has used the label since it began challenging Trump's tweets in May.
Police cleared the White House area on Tuesday and blocked access to the site, where law enforcement had used violence to disperse protesters earlier this month. Facebook, which has taken a more hands-off approach to speech by political leaders, left the same post untouched. After the company last month started applying labels to his messages, Trump announced plans to scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies in order to regulate social media platforms more aggressively.
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