Facebook's Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters via Yahoo News

(Reuters) - Facebook employees critical of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to remove an inflammatory comment from U.S. President Donald Trump took their dissent public over the weekend on Twitter, praising the rival social media firm for taking action and rebuking their own employer.

Many tech workers at companies including Facebook, Google and Amazon have become active on social justice issues in recent years and urged their employers take action and change policies.

Still, the criticism of Zuckerberg marked a rare case of high-level employees publicly taking their own CEO to task, with at least three of the seven critical posts seen by Reuters coming from people who identified themselves as senior managers.

“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.

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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebooks-zuckerberg-faces-employee-blowback-125829836.html

[dhill926]

1. good....

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Slowly

Zuck is separating himself from his own company

[moreland01]

3. Unfortunately

If you're still on Facebook, you're part of the problem.

[lagomorph777]

5. +1 Falsebook is filth and if you touch it, you get dirty.

[Wawannabe]

6. Completely agree!

I am so disgusted with my bf for his views that come mostly from fb. I am leaving him. Just secured my new pad and hope to be out next weekend.

[obamanut2012]

19. yawn

[marble falls]

4. The problem is Mark Zuckerberg. He won't be changed and FB will only be changed w/out him.

Its a problem with google/Tesla/Amazon/FB: they're wrapped around brilliant but deeply flawed individuals that think they are their companies' only visionaries and driving force and their stockholders have limited powers and vested interests in maintaining this illusion.

[AllyCat]

7. I just dumped FB last night. Partially because of this.

Reasonable people I know and good progressives are now spouting the "protesters" have lost their message by looting. I cannot get it through to them that there is a big difference between the looters and the protesters. But it has fallen on deaf ears. I am so horrified at the racism I see in my FB friends over the inability to separate these two actions has caused me enough stress that I am done. Once they are worried about their property, they now support police KILLING people that are breaking curfew.

That and Zuck is not a force for good.

I will join the protesters where I can. I will stop bad actors where I see it. But I no longer have allies in people I used to think were my friends.

[C Moon]

8. The problem with this is that now the left voice will be gone from FB.

I left as well, but I'm starting to wonder if it's such a good idea.

[AllyCat]

11. It is too stressful. I just am not in a place to be the left voice right now.

They aren't listening to me anyway.

[C Moon]

13. I understand. My issue is different: I was feeling dumb for being on FB after that ass when on Fox.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

14. So? Let it be the discredited RW propaganda tool that it wants to be - no reason there couldnt be

other social media utilized to fill the void. What is the hold that this thing has over so many otherwise reasonable people?

[lark]

16. I am staying on FB, I have friends all over the country & the world that I keep touch with.

I don't buy anything FB is selling, never, don't participate in any of their games and have segregated out all my rw relatives and acquaintances into their own group so I can safely post to my lefty friends with no blowback. I don't want to leave FB because of them, I love and enjoy them and vice versa. Zuckerberg is atrocious greedy bastard who has sold his soul for rw money and I'd love to see him gone but until there's a better alternative for me to keep in touch easily with my friends/family who lives thousands of miles away, I will continue to post there. Funny, the new version makes it impossible to copy/paste there ( yes, could be user error), it's cut down my posts by about 50%.

[obamanut2012]

21. same

[PatSeg]

23. Me too

I've told people who have threatened to close their accounts, that there are ways to use Facebook responsibly and safely. Meanwhile, I am in touch with friends and relatives regularly because of Facebook. I've even found some cousins and friends that I'd lost touch with many years ago. So for me, Facebook is a positive experience for the most part. I limit my personal information, never take stupid surveys, and block or unfriend negative influences. I keep my friends list small and relevant. I usually keep my politics on political groups.

I hope that someday, Zuckerberg will leave and let others run it. Meanwhile, if there was a reasonable alternative, I would give it a try, but even if there was, there would probably be problems with that as well.

[dhol82]

26. Me too.

I have carefully, over the years, tailored my list on FB.
I don’t have grief from any wingers.

[obamanut2012]

20. Yup, this is exactly what they want you to do

Which is why I look askew at CERTAIN posters who say to leave it. They want it to become 100% RW. FB also is an excellent platform for left views, organizing protests, etc.

[tom_kelly]

9. That's exactly why I got off FB

seven years ago. It only took 2 weeks before I dumped my account because I felt the same way towards some lifelong friends. Once I saw some of their political rambling I was done. It was depressing.

[dalton99a]

10. Facebook is now synonymous with RW disinformation and stupid trash.

[turbinetree]

12. Zuckerburg was given the opportunity to "grow-up" he chose not to do this

he has gone in front of Congress to try and have it both ways and dither with his answers, and presently, he is only concerned with his platform to make money...............Senator Warren has it right, this firm and other firms need to be regulated, there needs to be Fairness Doctrine in place to stop this BS.
When the CEO of major platform is only seeking to be a hack to BS coming from the megalomaniacs mouth and does not have concern for those actions say's everything about the character and the business model and his business model is BS.
He does not want to take responsibility for his and or people that go on that platform...............I really hate facebook, and never had it.................when he knows that foreign bots, trolls and security forces are giving him directly or thru a third party and his platform money to spread that BS, that says everything.............when he has the security system to stop it...........and he will not........

[JudyM]

18. Knowing how FB impacted 2016, and that they haven't seriously reformed, says it all.

[crickets]

22. +1

[turbinetree]

25. Yes.......................

he has shown time and time again, that he is irresponsible in his collective actions...............

[DanieRains]

15. Zuckerberg Is In The Business Of $$ Returns To Stockholders America's Needs Mean Very Little To Him

If Adolf Hitler would boost ad sales, CEO Zuckerberg would be broadcasting his message from sea to shining sea.

Corporate America is so cool!

[Operaweeble]

17. More of this, please.

[Faux pas]

24. Zuck

Fuckerberg. That is all.

[Cha]

27. WOW.. So Glad to see this.. TY, hpd! TY Ryan Freitas!

[rockfordfile]

28. I don't buy it. facebook is a un-American company. That will never change