BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith told staff in a memo on Tuesday that it's
permissible for them to call Donald Trump a racist as a fact on social
media.
Smith wrote the memo in response to queries from staff about what was OK for
them to post on social media networks such as Twitter or Facebook about
Trump. While BuzzFeed News has a policy that staff not be political
partisans on social media, Smith said Trump "is operating far outside the
political campaigns to which those guidelines usually apply." BuzzFeed's
entertainment staffers have more leeway when it comes to expressing opinions.
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