Former Employees Urge Zuckerberg to Censor Trump: ‘Facebook Isn’t Neutral, and It Never Has Been’
Former Facebook employees have now stepped forward to add to the chorus of criticism aimed at CEO Mark Zuckerberg for failing to censor President Donald Trump’s posts on the platform. Describing the company’s policies as “incoherent” and “cowardly,” the former employees argue that Zuckerberg must censor the President of the United States, because “Facebook isn’t neutral, and it never has been.”
Breitbart News recently reported that social media giant Facebook has faced internal turmoil after CEO Mark Zuckerberg refused to censor certain posts by President Trump that many progressive employees believed were a call to violence. Last Friday, Twitter censored a tweet from President Trump in which he addressed violent protesters stating, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” behind a warning label noting that the tweet violated Twitter’s rules relating to “glorifying violence.”
Facebook declined to censor the same message, with Zuckerberg stating in a post that while he found the message “deeply offensive,” the company had determined that it did not violate its policy against “incitements to violence.” Since then employees across the company have expressed their anger at the CEO’s decision.
Now 33 former Facebook employees who worked at the company during its early stages have written an open letter published in the New York Times, arguing that Facebook’s position on moderating President Trump is inconsistent and exposes the public to danger.
The letter is harshly critical of Zuckerberg’s policy, stating: “It claims that providing warnings about a politician’s speech is inappropriate, but removing content from citizens is acceptable, even if both are saying the same thing. That is not a noble stand for freedom. It is incoherent, and worse, it is cowardly. Facebook should be holding politicians to a higher standard than their constituents.” (Read more from “Former Employees Urge Zuckerberg to Censor Trump: ‘Facebook Isn’t Neutral, and It Never Has Been’” HERE)
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