Facebook's Zuckerberg faces employee blowback over ruling on Trump comments
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 Facebooks News Feed. He added he had mobilized "50+ likeminded folks" to lobby for internal change.
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dhill926
(16,339 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,163 posts)Zuck is separating himself from his own company
moreland01
(739 posts)If you're still on Facebook, you're part of the problem.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)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
(26,076 posts)marble falls
(57,089 posts)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
(16,187 posts)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
(12,213 posts)I left as well, but I'm starting to wonder if it's such a good idea.
AllyCat
(16,187 posts)They aren't listening to me anyway.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)other social media utilized to fill the void. What is the hold that this thing has over so many otherwise reasonable people?
lark
(23,102 posts)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%.
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.
I have carefully, over the years, tailored my list on FB.
I dont have grief from any wingers.
obamanut2012
(26,076 posts)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
(959 posts)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
(81,491 posts)turbinetree
(24,701 posts)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
(29,248 posts)turbinetree
(24,701 posts)he has shown time and time again, that he is irresponsible in his collective actions...............
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)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
(45 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)Fuckerberg. That is all.