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Tech workers are urging Facebook employees to quit their jobs in protest of the company's controversial decision to keep up Trump's post about the George Floyd protest

in 2018 over its controversial Chinese search engine project, also shared a similar sentiment on Twitter.Tim Hockin, a principal software engineer at Google, encouraged tech workers at Facebook to "use your powers for good."Randy Luecke, a software engineer at Stripe who used to work at Google, tweeted that there are many "highly employable at Facebook right now who could walk away.

"I know many people are upset that we've left the President's posts up, but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies," Facebook CEO Mark ZuckerbergFacebook has cracked down on content moderation in recent years, particularly when it comes to false news and misinformation.

But the company's decision not to interfere with political speech and fact-check political ads has drawn much scrutiny.in an interview with Fox News' Dana Perino. "I think, in general, private companies shouldn't be, especially these platform companies, shouldn't be in the position of doing that." If so, we want to hear from you. Contact this reporter at

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