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May 29, 2020 09:02 pm GMT

Here's what Facebook employees are saying about Zuckerberg's decision not to remove Trump's threats of violence

If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly.

Leaked internal Facebook posts reveal that Facebook employees are horrified that Mark Zuckerberg and C-suite executives refuse to remove impeached president Donald Trumps threats of violence.

Casey Newton at The Verge:

I have to say I am finding the contortions we have to go through incredibly hard to stomach, one employee wrote in a comment about the shooting post. All this points to a very high risk of a violent escalation and civil unrest in November and if we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly.

On Tuesday Twitter labeled two tweets about mail-in voting as potentially misleading for suggesting the practice would lead to a rigged election. Early Friday morning, Twitter placed another tweet behind an interstitial warning for glorifying violence because it included the sentence when the looting starts, the shooting starts. In all cases, the tweets were cross-posted to Facebook. (...)

But then Trump cross-posted to Facebook a tweet that seemed to suggest that violent action be taken against people protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police. Would it be possible to explain in more detail the interpretation of our community standards? one employee asked. Does this post violate them but get an exemption, or is it not violating?

But by mid-afternoon Pacific time on Friday, employees had not received a response and they were beginning to grow frustrated. Its egregious that nobody from policy has chimed in or provided any sort of context here, one employee said.

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Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/29/heres-what-facebook-employee.html

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