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Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by nikivi »

As if anything is going to change. He has the voting rights to do whatever.

There are few FB employees that did speak out on Twitter with not agreeing but to what end. They will still continue to work in support of all this.

I don't think it's such a big problem though, if you dislike hate and violence just mute these people from your feeds/life. The bigger issue as I see it is FB working directly in support of Trump by supporting his ads and dropping Biden's ads.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by troughway »

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

His employees being vocal about this when Facebook is bought and paid for by the US government to spy on people globally is funny nonetheless.

I wish they would have a spine over things that mattered rather than some nonsensical shitposts.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by ryanianian »

troughway wrote: post #5

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. His employees being vocal about this when Facebook is bought and paid for by the US government to spy on people globally is funny nonetheless. I wish they would have a spine over things that mattered rather than some nonsensical shitposts.

> bought and paid for by the US government

What?

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by mjayhn »

People on twitter at other $bigtech seem more than happy to bring you all on board but you've been sucking that $270k+ top-end-even-for-FAANG salary with no concern for the ethics or morality of your business for years. This isn't new. I'm less than excited to see Facebook show up on a resume and haven't been for years. Not to mention the people I've interviewed from there seem to get so accustomed to working on Facebook internal tools that aren't in use anywhere else, especially you front end devs (not talking about just react here but the internal ecosystem).

Best of luck to those of you looking to leave. It took THIS much to get you to this point, don't forget that.

There are a LOT of devs not from Facebook that deserve to be hired and given chances in other FAANG businesses. People you actually want to work with who won't contribute to attacks on democracy for a high salary and have refused to even respond to Facebook recruiters for the last 3-10 years.

Hire them instead. Especially you Google employees who are on twitter ranting and raving right now. There's a huge amount of people who want to work with you who haven't traded their ethics for a paycheck and were laid off over the last few months. Yet you're trying to bring these Facebook employees under your umbrella? How about you help bring some other people up?

It's just shocking how out of touch you SV FAANG types are. I'm glad you're actually tweeting about important things this weekend, though.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

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Post by spamizbad »

narrator wrote: post #2

Probably why he's going to start hiring outside of tech hubs.

Regardless of location, Facebook is hiring from demographics that typically don't support Trump. Young, STEM-educated people skew left.

If you want Trump supporters to even things out you're probably going to either: A) hire older devs from less traditional software dev backgrounds. B) Still pull from Young+STEM but filter out anyone whose social media indicates them as being left-ish.

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