US-Netherlands relations: Rutte's visit to Washington focuses on jobs and security issues

 During their press conference, Trump was asked about the racist chanting made during a speech at which he again criticized four congresswomen.

The questioning made Rutte visibly uneasy, the Volkskrant said. In 2017, Rutte was himself at the centre of a similar row when he told a Dutch newspaper people who are not happy living in the Netherlands and with the way things are done should leave. And in 2016, he said a group of Dutch Turks demonstrating in Rotterdam should ‘eff off’.

The visit ended with a special ceremony to hand over a US flag which flew during the Normandy landings in 1944. The flag had been bought by a Dutch art collector at auction in 2016 for €450,000 and he decided to donate it to the US. My visit to the White House came to an end with a special ceremony. On D-Day in 1944, the first navigation vessels landed on Utah Beach, Normandy under this very flag. Today this flag returned home, after its Dutch owners presented it to President Trump

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White Supremacy banned: Facebook bans white nationalism from their platform after pressure from civil rights groups - by David Ingram and Ben Collins

Facebook is banning white nationalism and white supremacy from its social network following criticism that it had not done enough to eliminate hate speech on its platform

The social media giant said in a blog post Wednesday that conversations with academics and civil rights groups convinced the company to expand its policies around hate groups.

 “Today we’re announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram, which we’ll start enforcing next week,” the company wrote in the post. “It’s clear that these concepts are deeply linked to organized hate groups and have no place on our services.” Scrutiny of Facebook reached new heights in the past two weeks after a gunman in Christchurch, New Zealand, used Facebook to livestream his attacks on two mosques that killed 50 people.

 Note EU-Digest: Bravo, let's hope Twitter does the same, which would ban Donald Trump and his Populist buddies in Europe and other areas of the world from using both Facebook and Twitter, to spread their white supremacy nationalist ideology.

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