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State Department reminds staff on ethics after posts on Trump interests
Source: Reuters
POLITICS | Wed May 17, 2017 | 12:43pm EDT
State Department reminds staff on ethics after posts on Trump interests
By Yeganeh Torbati | WASHINGTON
The U.S. State Department's legal office has reminded employees not to promote private interests on social media after its online accounts publicized President Donald Trump's private Florida resort and his daughter Ivanka Trump's new book.
An article on a State Department website in April about Mar-a-Lago and a retweet in May on the book were eventually withdrawn but the new guidance issued on Tuesday said employees should "exercise caution before using a Department social media account to highlight non-official activities of U.S. government officials and their family."
A State Department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the guidance, which was posted on an internal website and written by the Office of Ethics and Financial Disclosure of the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser.
It was directed to social media managers who oversee hundreds of official government accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms used by State Department agencies, consulates and embassies to communicate information and U.S. foreign policy.
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State Department reminds staff on ethics after posts on Trump interests
By Yeganeh Torbati | WASHINGTON
The U.S. State Department's legal office has reminded employees not to promote private interests on social media after its online accounts publicized President Donald Trump's private Florida resort and his daughter Ivanka Trump's new book.
An article on a State Department website in April about Mar-a-Lago and a retweet in May on the book were eventually withdrawn but the new guidance issued on Tuesday said employees should "exercise caution before using a Department social media account to highlight non-official activities of U.S. government officials and their family."
A State Department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the guidance, which was posted on an internal website and written by the Office of Ethics and Financial Disclosure of the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser.
It was directed to social media managers who oversee hundreds of official government accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms used by State Department agencies, consulates and embassies to communicate information and U.S. foreign policy.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-ethics-idUSKCN18D25D