Trump calls Facebook's Zuckerberg after Twitter flags his tweets: Report

Trump last week signed an executive order in a bid to strip social media platforms of some of the legal protections that they enjoy

With the White House and Twitter at war over flagging certain controversial tweets by Donald Trump, the US President and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly spoke on the phone and discussed how to deal with such a situation.

The call was described by both sides as productive, news agency IANS reported citing Axios website.

In a public Facebook post, Zuckerberg later said: "I've been struggling with how to respond to the President's tweets and posts all day. Personally, I have a visceral negative reaction to this kind of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric".

"But I'm responsible for reacting not just in my