“Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie,” the engineer said.
A Facebook engineer on Tuesday publicly resigned from his job and harshly criticized CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the company’s handling of President Donald Trump’s post about looters, escalating Facebook’s internal dissent in response to its free speech policies.... [+]Software engineer Timothy Aveni wrote on Facebook and LinkedIn he is quitting his job over the company’s decision to leave up Trump’s “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” post.
Aveni said Facebook is being “complicit in the propagation of weaponized hatred” and finds excuses not to take action against Trump’s posts. While Twitter issued a warning that Trump’s tweet “glorified violence,” Facebook left the post up because, Zuckerberg, it doesn’t violate its policies against causing “imminent risk of specific harms or dangers.”
A number of Facebook employees have since taken to Twitter to publicly disagree with Zuckerberg and slam the company for its “hands-off” approach to Trump’s posts. Though employees staged an unprecedented virtual walkout on Monday over the issue, Aveni is the first employee to resign in direct response to the protests. .“Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie. Facebook will keep moving the goalposts every time Trump escalates, finding excuse after excuse not to act on increasingly dangerous rhetoric,” Aveni wrote.
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