As lawyers for both sides offered their closing statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin on Monday, a thousand miles away, executives at Facebook were preparing for the verdict to drop. Seeking to avoid incidents like the one last summer in which 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse the social media company said it would take actions aimed at “preventing online content from being linked to offline harm.” (Chauvin is the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty Tuesday of the second-degree murder of George Floyd last May; the Kenosha shootings took place in August 2020 after a local militia group called on armed civilians to defend the city amid protests against the police shooting of another Black man, Jacob Blake.)