Twitter makes Juneteenth a company holiday

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Twitter makes Juneteenth a company holiday

Twitter is set to make Juneteenth a company holiday.

Jack Dorsey, the boss of the micro-blogging platform and Square, has confirmed that both firms will honour Juneteenth as a company holiday in the US.

He wrote on Twitter: Juneteenth is observed on June 19, and is a date that's used by some Americans to mark the emancipation from slavery in the US.

Twitter is also seeking to find specific days to mark the end of slavery in other countries.

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