This Facebook employee quit due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s inaction on Trump’s posts. “If Mark keeps moving that goalpost... for when someone has crossed the line, especially someone as powerful as the president of the United States, we’re in danger.”
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New York A Facebook employee who quit the company this week told CNN he is worried the platform will be used to further escalate violence in the United States. Timothy Aveni, a 22-year-old Facebook software engineer, quit after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg refused to take action on President Donald Trump's warning last week that"looting" would lead to"shooting," as protests gripped the United States. Aveni announced the move in a Facebook post that went viral. Zuckerberg's inaction, Aveni said, proved the 36-year-old billionaire had abandoned one of his key principles to shut down calls for violence on Facebook.
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