Sources describe the internal turmoil at Facebook following Joel Kaplan's appearance in support of Brett Kavanaugh during his testimony to Congress last week
in reality, Facebook's senior leaders fight hard, *in public*, for Kavanaugh just as they did for Trump. http://www.nytimes.com/... Deepa Seetharaman / @dseetharaman : News coming: Hundreds of Facebook employees are outraged by Joel Kaplan's appearance at Judge Kavanaugh's hearing, per sources. Facebook is planning to hold a town hall meeting with senior executives, including Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, tomorrow. @wsj TK. Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : I especially enjoy the shocked ‘But.. but.. Sheryl Sandberg wrote a book about feminism!’ I mean early Facebooker @katelosse wrote this dynamic up years ago in “The Boy Kings.” http://twitter.com/... Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : One could argue many things could unravel Facebook, however, not being able to keep talent or recruit new talent is top the list. http://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Facebook employees are flipping out that one of their own appeared at the Kavanaugh hearings, per @dseetharaman Prediction: the split between Silicon Valley and the politcal right is just beginning.http://www.wsj.com/ ... Rat King / @mikeisaac : folks i talk to recall the internal rancor as greater than after the 2016 presidential election. tough week for FB Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Incredible detail in a very good @MikeIsaac story about internal Facebook outrage about Kaplan's appearance at the Kavanaugh hearing http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : It's amusing when Facebook employees occasionally realize they work for the moral equivalent of big tobacco. http://www.nytimes.com/...