Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by calanya » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 7:19 AM UTC

Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump
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Re: Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by paulydavis » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 9:36 AM UTC

Zuckerberg knows he has a large conservative older user base. Losing them I bet is his concern

Re: Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by kukx » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 9:41 AM UTC

Is this news or opinion piece? Incendiary is clearly an opinion. "(...)not to take action on incendiary comments posted to the social network by U.S. President Donald Trump."

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Post by randyrand » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 10:27 AM UTC

paulydavis wrote: post #2

Zuckerberg knows he has a large conservative older user base. Losing them I bet is his concern

deleting them is way more controversy generating than not. companies avoid controversy.

Re: Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by lysp » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 11:30 AM UTC

randyrand wrote: post #4

paulydavis wrote: post #2

Zuckerberg knows he has a large conservative older user base. Losing them I bet is his concern

deleting them is way more controversy generating than not. companies avoid controversy.

to be fair, twitter didn't delete it - only hid it.

Re: Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by hatenberg » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 11:31 AM UTC

kukx wrote: post #3

Is this news or opinion piece? Incendiary is clearly an opinion. "(...)not to take action on incendiary comments posted to the social network by U.S. President Donald Trump."

Last I checked there is flames everywhere now and he is certainly fanning them.

Re: Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by nailer » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 11:44 AM UTC

hatenberg wrote: post #6

kukx wrote: post #3

Is this news or opinion piece? Incendiary is clearly an opinion. "(...)not to take action on incendiary comments posted to the social network by U.S. President Donald Trump."

Last I checked there is flames everywhere now and he is certainly fanning them.

How is warning people not to loot 'fanning the flames'?

Re: Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by ashtonkem » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 11:49 AM UTC

paulydavis wrote: post #2

Zuckerberg knows he has a large conservative older user base. Losing them I bet is his concern

That’s fair, but Zuckerberg has absolutely made his PR situation worse by creating high minded rules and applying them unequally.

Re: Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by DeonPenny » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 1:02 PM UTC

Zuckerberg isn't insane. People in silicon valley sometime forget how much of a bubble they live in. Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government.

Zuckerberg knows the blowback is coming. I can't see how twitter doesn't become a life long target of the Trump administration to make an example of. If Facebook doesn't want to get caught in the splash zone they might want to back away from this one.

Re: Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump

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Post by ForHackernews » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC

DeonPenny wrote: post #9

Zuckerberg isn't insane. People in silicon valley sometime forget how much of a bubble they live in. Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government. Zuckerberg knows the blowback is coming. I can't see how twitter doesn't become a life long target of the Trump administration to make an example of. If Facebook doesn't want to get caught in the splash zone they might want to back away fro…

> Twitter just effectively started a full-scale war with the federal government.

This is kind of true, but also points to just how insane this historical moment is. Can you imagine any prior administration acting this way? Can you imagine Bill Clinton raging out about AOL, or GW Bush trying to sic the FCC on Yahoo because it sent his email to spam?