Thread by @MikeIsaac

here is a story on the brewing dissent inside Facebook over Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to allow political candidates and office holders to run FB ads with false information

nytimes.com/2019/10/28/tec…

and heres a copy of the open letter circulating inside of Facebook signed by hundreds of employees who disagree with the policy

nytimes.com/2019/10/28/tec…

fwiw no one i have spoken to really feels there are wholly satisfying answers for any of these problems

but some number of people inside of these companies are not happy with a free-for-all approach

fb says it will continue the Internal discussion

fwiw, in the letter itself there’s a line that says “This is still our company”

it is a reference to the presentation and laptop sticker employees get during new hire orientation that says “This is now your company."

one thing i forgot to put into todays story is that the inclusion of Breitbart as a trusted org in last weeks Facebook News announcement also kicked up a lot of internal dust

imo including breitbart seemed like an unforced error on an otherwise fairly well received announcement

would not have imagined just a few years back that FB would spend its days in the lead up to 2020 getting hammered by dems