"They very violently attacked him," said President Trump in September of 2020. "He probably would have been killed," Trump added, if Rittenhouse didn't shoot.
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all counts on Friday in connection with the deadly shooting of two men and the injury of a third with a semi-automatic rifle during tumultuous racial justice rallies in Wisconsin in 2020.
Leaked internal Facebook documents, which included conversations among employees of the social media giant, show that staffers last year wanted to censor Breitbart News over its accurate reporting of riots following the death of George Floyd.
The trial for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is accused of shooting three people during Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is set to begin on Nov. 1.
Leaked internal messages from a Facebook staff chat board reportedly show that some workers at the social media giant had wanted to suppress “very negative” coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement by conservative news outlets.
On Friday, an unnamed Facebook whistleblower argued that the social networking giant routinely turned a blind eye to hate speech and misinformation on the platform over fears it would hinder the company's growth.
