The tweets are nice, but little will change until people at the executive level bow out publicly.
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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
#22Facebook employees are not adequately representative of the population as a whole. They lean overwhelmingly left and as such I would take their "blowback" with a grain of salt.
Hacker news comments are not adequately representative of the Facebook employee population...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
#23Facebook employees are not adequately representative of the population as a whole. They lean overwhelmingly left and as such I would take their "blowback" with a grain of salt.
That is definitely true.
This however, is still a problem for Facebook, and the greater society, which seems to disagree with them more and more.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
#24People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not? Is this for real?
We really need mainstream decentralized applications more than ever. Thoughts of people should not be censored. Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you?
This is just ridiculous. I don't like Facebook but great decision by Mark. Same as they decided to not remove political ads.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
#25“Mark is wrong, and I will endeavor in the loudest possible way to change his mind,” wrote Ryan Freitas, whose Twitter account identifies him as director of product design for Facebook’s News Feed. He added he had mobilized “50+ likeminded folks” to lobby for internal change.
Jason Toff, identified as director of product management, wrote: “I work at Facebook and I am not proud of how we’re showing up. The majority of coworkers I’ve spoken to feel the same way. We are making our voice heard.”
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"endeavor in the loudest possible way"?
"not proud of how we're showing up"?
If "the majority of coworkers" and "50+ likeminded folks" are so passionate about it... stop working for the company. Quit, make a fucking sacrifice and stop thinking that somehow you're going to change Zuck's mind.
Money is a hell of a drug.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
#26Facebook employees are not adequately representative of the population as a whole. They lean overwhelmingly left and as such I would take their "blowback" with a grain of salt.
lol that certainly is a statement you cannot back up. Even Fox News has an article saying there's not enough evidence to show any bias at facebook https://www.foxnews.com/tech/is-facebook-as-left-leaning-as-...
Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
#27Facebook employees are not adequately representative of the population as a whole. They lean overwhelmingly left and as such I would take their "blowback" with a grain of salt.
Some may also be much more financially sound to back up their talk with resignations or other actions if they feel strongly that their employer does things that don't sit well with them.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
#28People 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 Face…
That sounds unfair. Of course you very accustomed to working with tools you work with every day, especially if they're good. You'll also never find a 1:1 match between companies though and not-bad people can switch between systems as needed. Unless you need an intermediate level boilerplate writer ready to go with tech X and Y from day 1, it should be fine. Why not say: These are people experienced with systems that…
Because their tooling knowledge is rearranging deck chairs on the titanic compared to their willingness to sell out their own people for a buck.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
#29This is part of the circle of life for internal Facebook turmoil: 10 Facebook does something to draw ire 20 Employee drama 30 The company leadership offers some platitudes to buy time 40 GOTO 10
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
#30Facebook employees are not adequately representative of the population as a whole. They lean overwhelmingly left and as such I would take their "blowback" with a grain of salt.
Hacker news comments are not adequately representative of the Facebook employee population...
The billions of users of Facebook might not appreciate a censored view of the world. The shareholders might have something to say about it too.