Facebook staff members made their thoughts and feelings known on Twitter.
Jason Toff, director of product management at Facebook, said he wasn’t proud of how the company was “showing up,” adding that most of his co-workers feel the same.
Jason Stirman, a design manager at Facebook, said he doesn’t know what to do. “I’m a Facebook employee that completely disagrees with Mark’s decision to do nothing about Trump’s recent posts, which clearly incite violence,” he said, adding that he wasn’t the only one.
Brandon Dail, a front-end engineer at Facebook, said: “Trump’s glorification of violence on Facebook is disgusting and it should absolutely be flagged or removed.”
David Gillis, director of product design at Facebook, said Trump’s message “encourages extra-judicial violence and stokes racism.” He added: “Respect to @Twitter’s integrity team for making the enforcement call.”
Josiah Gulden, a product designer at Facebook, retweeted Gillis and said he agreed. “I’m gravely concerned that if we’re only willing to enforce our standards based on (presumed) intended meaning, and never on apparent meaning, we’re always giving bad actors room to play the ‘I didn’t mean it that way’ card,” he said. “A very slippery slope.”
Diego Mendes, a product design manager at Facebook, said “Facebook leadership is wrong” and that he has “voiced his concerns internally.”
Dozens of Facebook employees, in rare public criticism on Monday of their own company, protested executives’ decision not to do anything about inflammatory posts that President Trump had placed on the giant social media platform over the last week.
The employees, who took the day off by logging into Facebook’s systems and requesting time off to support protesters across the country, also added an automated message to their emails saying that they were out of the office in a show of protest. The group is one of many clusters of employees attempting to push back on executives. As of Monday morning, many employees continued to discuss a list of demands for management.
The movement — a virtual “walkout” of sorts since most Facebook employees are working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic — comes as staff members have circulated petitions and threatened to resign. More than a dozen current and former employees have described the unrest as the most serious challenge to Mr. Zuckerberg’s leadership since the company was founded 15 years ago.
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Zuckerberg is a putz. He seems to make every decision based on how much money it can make him. There are no moral considerations at all.
Leave I-1's inflammatory and inciteful (not insightful) posts up and they will attract more eyeballs and more clicks and more money.
Zuck has done this at every turn.
Last I heard, there was still a case to be made that he stole the whole idea for FB from his college roommate and by the time the roommate formally made a complaint, Zuck had enough money to hire enough lawyers to kill it.
