“Facebook's inaction in taking down Trump's post inciting violence makes me ashamed to work here.”
“The final straw for me was the paid civic misinformation issue, where Facebook declared that it would not fact check political ads,” said one former engineer who left in February. “I could understand the argument for a ‘neutral’ news feed, but when someone is paying us to show content to people that’s not “neutral.” I felt that it was a politically and financially convenient decision rather than something done on principle.
," called the public outcry from his former colleagues “unprecedented.” Those employees speaking out weren't just risking their jobs at Facebook, he noted, but also future employment by signaling that they’re willing to speak out against their employer. “To see people say that they’re going to risk it all because it’s so dire, that’s new and different and hopefully it has a positive effect,” Luckie said to BuzzFeed News. He added that he had been in touch with current Facebook employees, who hoped to continue to exert pressure on Facebook management.
The unrest at Facebook comes after Zuckerberg said that the social network wouldn't take down a post by President Trump on, despite the CEO's feeling that it contained “divisive and inflammatory rhetoric.” “I know many people are upset that we've left the President's posts up, but 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,”That decision infuriated some employees, some of whom had previously raised concerns on the company’s internal forums that their company was already doing too much to appease conservatives.
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