Facebook Forced Its Employees To Stop Discussing Trump's Coup Attempt

[Wicked Blue]

Buzzfeed
Ryan Mac BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on January 6, 2021, at 8:45 p.m. ET

Facebook employees were appalled by President Donald Trump’s encouragement of his supporters as they stormed the US Capitol building on Wednesday to prevent the ratification of a free and fair election.

The employees were scared and frustrated, and some came to the realization that the platform they had helped build and operate had contributed to the wave of fear, disinformation, and chaos that flooded Congress. So they spoke out on an internal message board, and some called for Trump’s removal from the platform.

In less than an hour, Facebook moved to silence them. Without any apparent explanation, administrators froze comments on at least three threads in which employees had discussed removing Trump from the site.

“Donald Trump has directly incited a terror attack on Capitol Hill,” one Facebook employee wrote on a post where comments were later halted. “We need to take down his account right now. This is not a moment for half measures.”

"Our employees are actively discussing today's horrible events internally,” Facebook spokesperson Liz Bourgeois said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. She did not answer questions about why the company had temporarily paused discussion on some threads.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-trump-coup

[Midnightwalk]

1. I read the insurrectionists planned on private facebook groups

They were complicit.

[Hugin]

2. Farcebook is a criminal enterprise.

Fomenting dissent and enabling sedition.

Not including Facebook's participation with a foreign power with respect to the 2016 election.

[Wicked Blue]

3. Yes

Congress needs the enact strict regulations on Facebook, Twitter, etc. ASAP

[Stuart G]

4. Facebook has competition...When this gets around...(and it will) then, no more Facebook..

Yes, the demise of Facebook will take time, but this story will hurt Facebook more than it knows..

[we can do it]

5. And yet still we have idiots here who defend fb.

Sick of the bullshit excuses to continue using it. Plenty of alternatives.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Many of organizing groups of yesterday's terrorist attack

are on Facebook. Keep identifying, reporting and calling out these traitors no matter how much Facebook doesn't want to deal with it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. there are layers to the corruption. FB is in the all about money layer.

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[young_at_heart]

8. Facebook needs to go!

The list of misdeeds, etc. keeps growing. Goodbye!

[Orrex]

9. Facebook is obviously corrupt and will certainly be shut down

As soon obviously corrupt capitalism is shut down.

Right after we count every grain of sand on the beaches of the world.

[eShirl]

10. Fascbook

pronounced "fashbook"

[Wicked Blue]

11. +1