Several of the nation’s leading civil rights activists and organizations criticized comments of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg after a speech at Georgetown University.
in this kind of insidious way. Not interested in being your mule. You’re being deceptive + it needs to stop.Garza and others in the Black Lives Matter movement have been threatened, described repeatedly on social media platforms and conservative TV outlets as violent and subjected to what Garza has described as surprise FBI visits.
National security experts have described activity on Facebook and Twitter as critical to a coordinated Russian attempt to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Among the tactics used were ads and posts littered with inaccurate and incendiary text created by people using false identities. “The fact that Zuckerberg would even invoke civil rights icons in remarks that justify his decision to exempt politicians’ speech from Facebook’s Community Standards underscores his willful refusal to accept how voter suppression has played out, from Jim Crow to now," Vanita Gupta, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement."He is in denial and so is his company.
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