Twitter and Facebook have the same basic policies around voter suppression and incitement to violence, and trump posted the same stuff to both platforms.
Some FB employees are beginning to wonder what line must be crossed for the company to act.
nytimes.com/2020/05/29/tec…
Some FB employees are beginning to wonder what line must be crossed for the company to act.
nytimes.com/2020/05/29/tec…
there’s a company-wide question and answer session with Zuckerberg scheduled for now (4:15pm PT) that employees hope will provide answers.
Zuckerberg makes the call to keep POTUS' posts up inside Facebook so that people can see them for themselves, despite MZ's own "visceral negative reaction to this kind of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric."
facebook.com/zuck/posts/101…
facebook.com/zuck/posts/101…
here's his breakdown of how they dissected the President's post, and how they are in or not in line with FB's policies.
facebook.com/zuck/posts/101…
facebook.com/zuck/posts/101…
it's only been minutes but the majority of employee responses to Zuckerberg's decision thus far are....not very positive
it's not too often morale gets this funky inside of Facebook, but things are strained. some folks comparing it to the very real angst inside the company around the Kavanaugh hearings and Facebook's involvement in them.
some employees are lobbing Q's at Mark, most are just upset
some employees are lobbing Q's at Mark, most are just upset
so the way these Q&A's work, Zuckerberg's video streams and employees ask questions of him in a text box, sort of like a twitch stream.
employees have taken to sharing clips of MZ's testimony to @AOC last year as a way to push back, wondering if the guidelines still truly exist.
employees have taken to sharing clips of MZ's testimony to @AOC last year as a way to push back, wondering if the guidelines still truly exist.
it's this clip. employees are sharing this @AOC on the Zuckerberg all-hands Q&A stream in protest.
it is not going well
it is not going well
