Facebook Employees Ask Zuckerberg What Would Happen If Trump Used Their Platform To Dispute Election
Source: BuzzFeed
Facebook Employees Ask Zuckerberg What Would Happen If Trump Used Their Platform To Dispute Election Results
After months of debate and disagreement over the handling of inflammatory or misleading posts from Donald Trump, Facebook employees want CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain what the company would do if the leader of the free world uses the social network to undermine the results of the 2020 US presidential election.
I do think were headed for a problematic scenario where Facebook is going to be used to aggressively undermine the legitimacy of the US elections, in a way that has never been possible in history, one Facebook employee wrote in a group on Workplace, the companys internal communication platform, earlier this week.
For the past week, this scenario has been a topic of heated discussion inside Facebook and is now a top question for its leader. Some 2,900 employees asked that Zuckerberg address it publicly during a company-wide meeting on Thursday which is slated for 11 a.m. PT.
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While there are signs Facebook will stand up to Trump in cases where he violates its rules as on Wednesday when it removed a post from the president in which he claimed in a video that children are almost immune from COVID-19 there are others that suggest the company is caving to critical voices on the right. In another recent Workplace post, a senior engineer collected internal evidence that showed Facebook was giving preferential treatment to prominent conservative accounts to help them remove fact-checks from their content.
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Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
The article goes on to say that Facebook removed that engineer's post, restrticted internal access to the information he'd cited -- and then fired him.
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zaj
(3,433 posts)Man, they buried the lede there.
highplainsdem
(49,034 posts)to change the subject line here to match the changed headline.
I agree that the headline should have been stronger, but they decided to focus on today's meeting.
3Hotdogs
(12,408 posts)Such orange bullshit will drive traffic and profits.
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,754 posts)He surely is no fan of Trump
Crowman2009
(2,499 posts)Because this whole utopia dream from the owners about every one of you becoming rich beyond your wildest dreams is bullshit. And if fuckerberg keeps this up, then walkout!