Dozens of Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout on Monday, in an escalation of protests against CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s failure to act on President Trump’s 'shooting' post
Dozens of Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout on Monday, in an escalation of protests against CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s failure to act on President Trump’s “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” post.Staff members flocked to rival platform Twitter for a second day, to denounce Zuckerberg’s “do nothing” approach to Trump’s post that threatened violence towards George Floyd protesters.“To be clear, this was in the works for a while.
Employees have also been circulating messages internally, with one staffer writing on a staff message board: “The hateful rhetoric advocating violence against black demonstrators by the US President does not warrant defense under the guise of freedom of expression,” theFacebook spokesman Andy Stone said employees will not have the protest days taken out of their vacation allowance, ReutersThe walkout, staged virtually as all Facebook employees are working remotely in the pandemic,was triggered...
In a joint statement, a number of the virtual demonstrators tweeted: “Facebook’s recent decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. We implore the Facebook leadership to #TakeAction.”
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