Zuckerberg has consistently held that Facebook will not flag any of Trump’s entries, and he doubled-down on that edict after the executive order was issued
Dozens of Facebook Inc. employees staged a virtual walkout Monday morning to protest executives’ decision not to challenge President Donald Trump’s inflammatory posts, part of what appears to be a movement to challenge the leadership of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg.
The walkout followed a weekend in which Facebook FB, +3.03% employees were vocal in their support of protesters following the death of George Floyd, and critical of their own company for its unfiltered treatment of Trump’s posts that seemed to stoke violence, which stood in contrast to Twitter Inc.’s TWTR, +2.97% fact-checking and censoring of the president’s words.
Trump slapped Twitter and Facebook with a politically charged executive order Thursday that intends to curb the power of major social-media companies, although legal experts quickly dismissed it as a diversionary ploy. Trump, they say, is unlikely to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Trump, who has 29.75 million Facebook followers and 81.2 million on Twitter, has continued to post on Facebook with no action by the company, including a Saturday morning post that seemed to pour gasoline on the incendiary protests roiling the country. The words and actions of Zuckerberg and Trump in recent days have inflamed passions among the company’s rank and file. Although the company on Friday inched toward tamping down some of the rhetoric by banning Natural News, one of the largest publishers of coronavirus disinformation, for using content from troll farms in North Macedonia and the Philippines, it did little to quell the debate.
Facebook is already being judged unkindly by prominent politicians and activists along with employees.
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