Some of Facebook's earliest employees say CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hands-off approach to President Trump's inflammatory posts is a 'betrayal' of the company's ideals.
and aggressive statements. Snapchat on Wednesday said it would no longer promote the president's account in its app, because of concerns over tweets in which he threatened protesters with"vicious dogs" and"ominous weapons".
In response to Twitter's actions, Trump last week signed an executive order attempting to strip online platforms of long-standing legal protections. And on Wednesday, the president's 2020 campaign manager responded to Snapchat by accusing the company of political bias and trying to rig the election. Zuckerberg has said he does not believe that Facebook or any private company should be the"arbiter of truth" or restrict political speech, which he says is already highly scrutinized.last week, he said he had struggled with how to respond to Trump's"divisive and inflammatory" posts, but decided to leave them up in the interest of letting people see what the president had to say.
In the letter, they wrote that Facebook's reluctance to limit what politicians can say creates a double standard. "They have decided that elected officials should be held to a lower standard than those they govern. One set of rules for you, and another for any politician, from your local mayor to the President of the United States," they wrote."Facebook should be holding politicians to aThe former employees said they support current staffers who have challenged the company's lack of action on Trump's post.
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