Some of Facebook’s earliest employees are condemning CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hands-off approach to President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about protests over police …
Some of Facebook’s earliest employees are condemning CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hands-off approach to President Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric about protests over police brutality.
In an open letter to their former boss, nearly three dozen ex-staffers said the company’s policy of allowing political speech to go largely unchecked was a «betrayal of the ideals Facebook claims.» They urged their former boss to reconsider his stance, «beginning by fact-checking politicians and explicitly labeling harmful posts.» The letter was first reported by the New York Times.
Facebook has come under attack by current employees, civil rights groups and Democratic politicians for not taking action on posts by the president that critics say break Facebook’s own rules against inciting violence and spreading misinformation.
That includes a post about the protests over George Floyd, the black man in Minneapolis who died last week after a police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes.
