Pressure increases on Zuckerberg to punish Trump: More than 140 scientists arrive.

Researchers, who include more than 60 professors at US-based research institutes, and a Nobel Prize laureate, have sent letters to the executive director of Facebook during the day asking him to “consider stricter policies on deninforms and hate language hurting people”, especially during recent protests on racial injustices, writes The Guardian, after Periscope.

The letter calls the distribution of “deformats and divisive language” contrary to researchers' intentions to use technology in preventing disease, boosting child education and reforming the criminal judicial system.

Their mission is <x0antitetic with some of the attitudes Facebook is taking, so we encourage you to be more on the side of truth and right in history, as we said on paper,” said Deborah Marks of Harvard Medical School.

Organisers of this letter said it had over 160 signatories.

In a post, Donald Trump had said that “when the robbery starts, the shoot starts 148x1>, alluding to police violence as counter-reply to protests. According to the authors, this post made clear calls for violence.

Zuckerberg has faced fierce criticism from Facebook's own staff after taking no action against Donald Trump. /Periscope