Stefan Mileschin

Fact check Trump

Facebook staff have called their boss a wimp and walked of the job after he refused to follow Twitter and fact check Donald [call in the troops] Trump.

Facebook employees walked away from their work from home desks and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing Trump’s posts.

Dozens of online posts from employees critical of Zuckerberg’s decision to leave Trump’s most inflammatory rants unchallenged where Twitter had labeled it. Some top managers participated in the protest, reminiscent of a 2018 walkout at Alphabet Google over sexual harassment.

It was a rare case of staff publicly taking their CEO to task, with one employee tweeting that thousands participated. Among them were all seven engineers on the team maintaining the React code library which supports Facebook’s apps.

“Facebook’s recent decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. We implore the Facebook leadership to #TakeAction”, they said in a joint statement published on Twitter.
“Mark is wrong, and I will endeavor in the loudest possible way to change his mind,” wrote Ryan Freitas, identified on Twitter as director of product design for Facebook’s News Feed. He added he had mobilised “50+ likeminded folks” to lobby for internal change.

https://fudzilla.com/news/50931-face...follow-twitter