Mark Zuckerberg's relationship with the president seemed to be the last straw for frustrated Facebook employees, as staff members came together to take part in a virtual 'walkout' Monday night
, who studies internet free speech, “sources tell me Facebook employees are changing their internal employee-Facebook profile images to the Twitter logo in protest.”
Zuckerberg spoke Monday with U.S. civil rights leaders about Facebook’s policies on topics such as race and elections in a video call thatRashad Robinson frustrated. “The problem with my ongoing conversations with Mark, is that I feel like I spent a lot of time, and my colleagues spent a lot of time, explaining to him why these things are a problem, and I think he just very much lacks the ability to understand it,” Robinson said in an interview following the call.Those who work for Zuckerberg “are outraged,” said Robinson. “I’ve got outreach from some of them.
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