Facebook employees will hold a virtual walkout over CEO Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to sanction false or inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump.
"Mark is wrong, and I will endeavour in the loudest possible way to change his mind," Ryan Freitas, the design director of Facebook's News Feed, tweeted Sunday, adding that he was organising about 50 other employees who share his view.
Twitter covered up the tweet with a message warning it"violated Twitter Rules about glorifying violence."The message also was posted on Facebook, but Mr Zuckerberg decided to let it stand unchallenged. But, Mr Zuckerberg went on to say that"our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies."Twitter and Facebook both have in place systems to combat disinformation and dangerous content - appeals to hatred, harassment, incitement to violence and the like.
"I don't know what to do, but I know doing nothing is not acceptable," Jason Stirman, a member of Facebook's research and development team, wrote on Twitter.I don't know what to do, but I know doing nothing is not acceptable. I'm a FB employee that completely disagrees with Mark's decision to do nothing about Trump's recent posts, which clearly incite violence. I'm not alone inside of FB. There isn't a neutral position on racism.
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