State Department employees are to avoid posting about the business interests of President Trump Donald John TrumpHR McMaster says president's policy to withdraw troops from Afghanistan is 'unwise' Cast of 'Parks and Rec' reunite for virtual town hall to address Wisconsin voters Biden says Trump should step down over coronavirus response MORE and his family on social media, according to a warning issued by the department's legal office. The statement follows several online posts by State Department accounts that appeared to promote Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and first daughter Ivanka Trump Ivana (Ivanka) Marie TrumpTrump luxury properties have charged US government .1M since inauguration: report Ivana Trump: Ivanka could 'definitely' be first female president The Hill's 12:30 Report - Presented by Facebook - Trump's West Coast campaign swing MORE's new book.

A post on an internal State Department website viewed by Reuters urges the agency's social media managers to "exercise caution before using a department social media account to highlight non-official activities of U.S. government officials and their family."

"If a government official has a commercial enterprise or has published a book, U.S. government resources should not be used to publicize those ventures," reads the post written by the Office of Ethics and Financial Disclosure of the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser.

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The guidance appears to be in response to a pair of incidents in recent weeks, in which State Department entities posted online about President Trump's and Ivanka Trump's business interests.

In one incident, a State Department website featured a post about the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which the president has dubbed the "Winter White House." That post was later taken down amid accusations that the State Department was promoting the private club.

And earlier this month, a Twitter account for the State Department's Office of Global Women's Issues retweeted a promotion for Ivanka Trump's recently released book. That tweet was also deleted.