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• @realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x

  ....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  “If anyone, including a politician, is saying things that can cause, that is calling for violence or could risk imminent physical harm.... we will take that content down.” Zuckerberg told @AOC a few months ago. https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x

  I can't stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis. A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.....

• @whitehouse @whitehouse on x

  “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!” h…

• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  New Mark Zuckerberg post on Trump: “Personally, I have a visceral negative reaction to this kind of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric.” “But I'm responsible for reacting not just in my personal capacity but as the leader of an institution committed to free expression.” https://t…

• @shonaghosh Shona Ghosh on x

  “My reaction was so viscerally negative that I immediately went on Fox News to exploit the situation to my advantage.” https://twitter.com/...

• @kreissdaniel Daniel Kreiss on x

  Don't let Zuckerberg peddle a ‘free speech’ line unchallenged. @Facebook DOES NOT have substantively different policies from @Twitter. It just doesn't enforce them. If Facebook was such a defender of free speech, why not let people speak anonymously or use pseudonyms? THREAD http…

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  There is something of a risk that Facebook is creating something to oversee the online era that operates even more slowly than the international institutions that oversee the offline one. That has absolutely zero chance of working. https://twitter.com/...

• @justinhendrix @justinhendrix on x

  Facebook oversight board issues statement, makes clear it won't do anything at all anytime soon, despite increasingly violent and incendiary posts from world leaders and the spread of dangerous disinformation related to the pandemic and elections. Toothless academic project. http…

• @felixsalmon Felix Salmon on x

  What's the probability that the @OversightBoard will directly address the issue of Trump's lies before, say, the RNC? I'll give 4-1 odds to anybody who believes in this thing. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffjarvis Jeff Jarvis on x

  No. Now is the time this work is needed. You don't need bureaucracy or permission. You need a Zoom call. Step up. The public is referring a case. https://twitter.com/...

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  Jack Dorsey had been up late on Thursday night speaking with executives when they were interrupted by President Trump's tweet: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” It was the culmination of months of debate inside Twitter. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x

  oh ok. several days later, Facebook's board says they'll be on it in months. got it https://twitter.com/...

• @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci on x

  So if I understand this correctly, Facebook's new oversight board, which doesn't have the authority to investigate what should not be amplified for instigating violence, will start working sometime too close to matter or after the US election? Convenient. https://twitter.com/...?

• @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci on x

  Or maybe the Facebook Oversight board has authority to oversee what should be removed or not amplified? Come on, we all switched to teaching online as best we can with one weeks notice—and Facebook's oversight board cannot hold an emergency meeting now? https://twitter.com/...

• @faris @faris on x

  First they came for twitter But I did not speak out Because I am not twitter Then they came for CNN But I did not speak out Because I am not CNN Then they came for all news media But I did not speak out Because I love money and power and it sort of works in my favor tbh https://t…

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  .@AOC's appeal to Facebook workers. https://twitter.com/...

• @twittercomms @twittercomms on x

  We've taken action in the interest of preventing others from being inspired to commit violent acts, but have kept the Tweet on Twitter because it is important that the public still be able to see the Tweet given its relevance to ongoing matters of public importance.

• @sahilkapur Sahil Kapur on x

  This is quite confusing. Zuckerberg faults Twitter for putting a warning on a presidential post it fears may incite violence. Zuckerberg argues that such a scenario would merit the more aggressive action of deleting the post. Then he declares that Facebook won't delete the post. …

• @espiers Elizabeth Spiers on x

  The rhetorical gymnastics Zuckerberg is doing to justify this are worthy of an Olympic gold medal. Especially when he claims to empathize with communities that are “hurting” as if it's about their delicate feelings and not that their lives are being actively threatened. https://t…

• @jeffjarvis Jeff Jarvis on x

  Not good, Zuckerberg. What does Facebook stand for? What are its community standards? Why does it exist? What is its north star? Will the Oversight Board do what Facebook finds itself incapable of doing? https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @timkarr @timkarr on x

  Zuckerberg's reluctance to do anything about a Trump Facebook post, which labels protesters with the racist term “THUGS” and threatens that some will get shot, contradicts an earlier commitment the @Facebook CEO made to Congress: https://twitter.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  here's his breakdown of how they dissected the President's post, and how they are in or not in line with FB's policies. https://www.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @charlesarthur Charles Arthur on x

  Interesting point that @gruber raises here: Zuckerberg testified to @aoc that he'd “take that content down” if a politician was calling for violence or could risk physical harm or [voter suppression]". Will she call him back for perjury? https://daringfireball.net/...

• @profgalloway Scott Galloway on x

  iow, My conscience is screaming at me but I bury it in a large dead void & visualize dollar signs https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  Oh Mark https://twitter.com/...

• @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci on x

  I keep seeing deep legal analyses of Trump's executive order on social media, wondering if it might hurt him and what Twitter might do. But hey, *look* over here. Trump's order has an audience of one: Mark Zuckerberg. And it's already working. New piece. https://www.theatlantic.c…

• @scottjshapiro @scottjshapiro on x

  Regardless of where you stand on Facebook's content moderation policy, I hope we can all agree that Mark Zuckerberg is gross https://twitter.com/...

• @realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x

  .@Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is today criticizing Twitter. “We have a different policy than Twitter on this. I believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.” Did Twitter criticize Obama for his “you can keep your Dr.”?

• @daringfireball Daring Fireball on x

  Zuckerberg Cravenly Goes All-In on Trump https://daringfireball.net/...

• @jyrkikasvi Jyrki J.J. Kasvi on x

  Okay, is there any discussion, Zuckerberg would not want to discuss “as much as possible”? Like the best ways to brutalise Rohingyas in Myanmar... Well, at least he is consistent. https://www.theverge.com/... käyttäen @Verge

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  Interesting that the “most relevant” (as selected by Facebook) comments on Zuckerberg's post defending his decision all seem to lean a certain way https://www.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  Here's Facebook's equivalent policy, which draws the line between posts about “state use of force” and incitements to nonstate violence. That's slightly more precise than Twitter's, although I suspect some of this is ex post facto justification. https://www.facebook.com/... https…

• @binarybits Timothy B. Lee on x

  Zuck is drawing the right distinction here IMO. Inciting private violence is categorically different from advocating violent government policies (including bad ones like shooting looters). It makes sense for social platforms to treat them differently. https://www.facebook.com/...…

• @tayhatmaker Taylor Hatmaker on x

  the mental contortions in zuck's post about why facebook is keeping trump's “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” post up are really something https://www.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  Disappointed in this seemingly being Facebook's response. https://twitter.com/...

• @denisewu Denise Wu on x

  Zuckerberg is complicit. Just like complicit Republican enablers. https://twitter.com/...

• @toddzwillich Todd Zwillich on x

  “When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” is a threat coined by Miami Police Chief Walter Headley, who promised violent reprisals on black protesters in 1967. He also said: “We don't mind being accused of police brutality. They haven't seen anything yet.” https://twitter.co…

• @joshconstine @joshconstine on x

  This is such a straw man argument. Facebook doesn't have to take down Trump's post. Start by flagging them as inaccurate! https://twitter.com/...

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  “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.” Mmm. https://www.facebook.com/...

• @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x

  Zuckerberg says he left up Trump's post b/c it was...news? “we decided to leave it up because the National Guard references meant we read it as a warning about state action, and we think people need to know if the government is planning to deploy force” https://www.facebook.com/.…

• @etbrooking Emerson T. Brooking on x

  Zuckerberg's statement here is insufficient. Trump was not discussing national security issues; he was contemplating deadly force against American citizens ("THUGS") engaged in civil protest. Lest we forget, Facebook deplatformed Myanmar's military leadership in August 2018. http…

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  Zuckerberg decides not to remove from Facebook the same posts that got Trump censored on Twitter. He (and Facebook's lawyers?) says people should know if President is willing to use force. And unlike Twitter he doesn't read the posts as violent incitement. https://www.facebook.co…

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  Zuckerberg has decided that Facebook will not take any action against Trump's post about the Minnesota shootings, he just told employees and said in a public post https://www.theverge.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  it's only been minutes but the majority of employee responses to Zuckerberg's decision thus far are....not very positive

• @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci on x

  The answer isnt in a close reading of Facebook's policies, but it's interests. https://twitter.com/...

• @anthony Anthony DeRosa on x

  The historical context of Trump's use of “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jimwaterson Jim Waterson on x

  There's literally no way to win against bad faith actions. People like you and me quote tweeting this with an exasperated comment is the aim. Ignoring it isn't possible. And decision by Twitter to hide it isn't hiding it, it's instead amplifying each tweet on a massive scale. htt…

• @pranavdixit @pranavdixit on x

  Twitter just confirmed to @BuzzFeedNews that they put a warning label on the tweets by Trump and the White House based on the historical context of the last line. In 1967, Miami Police Chief Walter Headley used the line to describe his approach to protests in black neighborhoods.…

• @duty2warn @duty2warn on x

  We know many think they didn't do enough, but it took courage to do something. If you're like me, you are continually amazed at how fearful so many are of him. Twitter took a real step (unlike Facebook). This article takes us behind the scenes. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jennifersertl @jennifersertl on x

  +1 @jack person of year! A masterclass in #governance Twitter Had Been Drawing a Line for Months When Trump Crossed It https://www.nytimes.com/... great article @kateconger #networkeffects #Section230

• @drunkaustrian @drunkaustrian on x

  Jack Dorsey hero narrative here we go https://twitter.com/...

• @rachelsklar @rachelsklar on x

  MONTHS. Meanwhile this has been going on for years (and the larger “this” predates Trump.) https://twitter.com/...

• @gottalaff Laffy on x

  “Inside the company, one faction wanted Jack Dorsey, Twitter's chief, to take a hard line against the president's tweets while another urged him to remain hands-off.” https://twitter.com/...

• @aaschapiro Avi Asher-Schapiro on x

  In this tick-tok on Twitter's response to Trump's tweets, @kateconger reports that CEO @jack “meditative retreats” would at times complicate the company's deliberative process: https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x

  “Twitter is girding for a protracted battle with Mr. Trump. Some employees have locked down their social media accounts and deleted their professional affiliation to avoid being harassed.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @ronwaxman @ronwaxman on x

  I am happy Twitter finally took some action, but Trump should be banished from the platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @henshaw Jon Henshaw on x

  Interesting inside look at Twitter's actions https://twitter.com/...

• @jjbmofw @jjbmofw on x

  Ive seen at least 10 people lose their accounts by responding to people sending violent threats at them but it takes months of debate to decide whether an influential person in power continually calling for violence should have their platform taken away https://twitter.com/...

• @kateconger Rocket Surgery on x

  How Twitter came to take action on Trump's tweets: https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @ceciliakang Cecilia Kang on x

  Behind the Scenes, Two years of Twitter Grappling with Trump and This Week Drawing a Firmer Line by @kateconger https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci on x

  I have complicated thoughts about an oversight board for Facebook, but if they do not hold an emergency meeting right this weekend, I don't think any of my complicated thoughts matter because the board clearly doesn't matter. I'm not wasting my brain cells analyzing vaporware.

• @chrismessina Chris Messina on x

  Who's tweeting on behalf of Facebook's @OversightBoard? A little transparency there would be informative. https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint @jason_kint on x

  The main issue is your overlord goes on national TV to mislead the public and help weaponize public discourse against a competitor. eg 1) Twitter didn't “censor” expression, they labeled 2) microtargeted info/ads avoid public scrutiny and 3) Facebook does “fact check.” https://tw…

• @ericagreene @ericagreene on x

  A reminder that Facebook's Oversight Board can only review content FB decided to take down. So even if they wanted to be helpful during the company's current self-inflicted meltdown, they couldn't be. https://twitter.com/...

• @jmgrygiel Jennifer Grygiel on x

  This is what corporate propaganda looks like. This is not a legitimate Oversight Board. https://twitter.com/...

• @evelyndouek Evelyn Douek on x

  There are 2 separate issues here. 1. If the OB is ready to hear cases at all. Clearly no, and it's reasonable for them to take their time to get this right. Its legitimacy depends on it. Some today are “The food sucks, is undercooked, and the kitchen is too slow in serving it!” h…

• @jamesfallows James Fallows on x

  2/2 To extend what @zeynep is arguing: if the Facebook “oversight” board does not convene, now, then it is fair to conclude that they are just decorative. If not now, when?

• @imeluny Melanie Ensign on x

  I hate pre-announcements. They're purely manipulative. Don't let companies (or governments) get away with claiming credit for products, policies, or organizations that don't actually exist yet. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. https://twitter.com/...

• @seth_hettena Seth Hettena on x

  The board that's supposed to moderate Facebook content won't even begin operating until later this year (after the election?) https://twitter.com/...

• @_alialkhatib Ali Alkhatib on x

  do we need to get an indiegogo up to get you people laptops? what the fuck is the holdup? https://twitter.com/...

• @charlieburns Charlotte Burns on x

  Later this year? Sure. It's not like there's anything important happening now https://twitter.com/...

• @rakshesha @rakshesha on x

  1. Who the hell are these people 2. We DO need independent oversight of social media corps, the experiments they're running on us, and the impact of their policies. A “board” looking into whether particular content should be “allowed” or not feels like clever misdirection. https:…

• @mohamed Mohamed Nanabhay on x

  If only there was a company that provided communication and networking tools to half the planet... https://twitter.com/...

• @erickfernandez Erick Fernandez on x

  Lmao Facebook will promise to get to it at some point in the future, eventually. https://twitter.com/...

• @scavino45 @scavino45 on x

  Twitter is targeting the President of the United States 24/7, while turning their heads to protest organizers who are planning, plotting, and communicating their next moves daily on this very platform. Twitter is full of shit - more and more people are beginning to get it. https:…

• @whitehouse @whitehouse on x

  The President did not glorify violence. He clearly condemned it. @Jack and Twitter's biased, bad-faith “fact-checkers” have made it clear: Twitter is a publisher, not a platform. https://twitter.com/...

• @whitehouse @whitehouse on x

  Twitter, in an email to the White House moments ago, admitted that the very tweet they are censoring does not violate any Twitter rules. So why are they still censoring it? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @marechalphd Nathalie Marchal, PhD on x

  Policies are worthless if they're not fairly, evenly, and transparently enforced. Kudos to Twitter for (belatedly) doing the right thing, and shame on Facebook for repeatedly choosing to enable misinformation, hate speech and incitement to violence when politically convenient htt…

• @michaelschweitz @michaelschweitz on x

  Ted, I grow the weirdest face hair, Cruz, uses twitter to tweet that he wants a criminal investigation of Twitter. 😂 https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  To be clear, Twitter declined to comment directly on the Khamenei tweets, aside from providing that context—which implies that the company also did not rule out taking action on them.

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  I asked Twitter for comment on these Khamenei tweets that Trump's FCC chair suddenly seems to care about. A spokesman directed me to guidelines that say “foreign policy saber-rattling on economic or military issues” generally does not violate its rules on “glorifying violence.” h…

• @ericbolling @ericbolling on x

  Fact check this @Twitter: As a @twitter stockholder, I am dumping my shares today. Rationale: New fact check policy opens #Twitter up to countless lawsuits over erroneous fact-checking and for biased fact-checking. What a can of worms @Jack is opening.. #SellingTwitterStock https…

• @jason_kint @jason_kint on x

  And here is the White House official account now with the same tweet labeled serving a notice from Twitter. It's hard to believe Twitter isn't on strong legal ground to do this. That said, the other tech platforms should be supporting Twitter in this right. https://twitter.com/..…

• @jason_kint @jason_kint on x

  interesting. not sure our agency commissioners should be diving in real-time. I believe this FCC tweet, shared by White House no less, muddies situation especially w Griffin comparison. Her tweet was removed, IOW Twitter took action. The remaining tweet is a news report about it.…

• @piersmorgan Piers Morgan on x

  The White House is officially endorsing the President's threat to shoot Americans. This is absolutely disgraceful. 👇 https://twitter.com/...

• @davidaxelrod David Axelrod on x

  You might ask if this really is the time to cheap shot the mayor of a shaken city & threaten more violence? It is if your MO is to inflame and exploit any crisis for your own perceived political advantage. You see tragedy. He sees opportunity. https://twitter.com/...

• @chrismegerian Chris Megerian on x

  Apart from the profanity, why is a White House advisor criticizing a technology platform for allowing protestors to organize? That seems to fall under freedom of assembly. https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint @jason_kint on x

  In sharp contrast, here is how same statement currently looks on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook's CEO went out strong yesterday across tv news claiming to differentiate his company in support of free speech. That's misleading as to what happens when adding a label. https://twit…

• @jonlemire Jonathan Lemire on x

  And now the official White House account reposts the president's tweet that was flagged by Twitter for promoting violence https://twitter.com/...

• @ow @ow on x

  Twitter has finally done the bare minimum after years of condoning these types of tweets. Wild to see Twitter do this while Mark Zuckerberg is saying Facebook shouldn't have to do anything at all. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• Vox Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Facebook and Twitter have similar policies. But only Twitter is fighting Trump.

• @timobrien Tim O'Brien on x

  “You could answer the existential question of whether @realDonaldTrump even exists if he doesn't exist on Twitter. I tweet, therefore I am. Dorsey meets Descartes.” Via ⁦@maureendowd⁩ https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @carlquintanilla Carl Quintanilla on x

  “Pour yourself a big old glass of salt juice. Draw an ice bath and fire up the cryotherapy pod and the infrared sauna. Then just pull the plug on him. You know you want to.” - ⁦@maureendowd⁩ $TWTR https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  Here's what employees are saying inside Facebook today about the company's decision not to take action against Trump's threatening posts: “History will not judge us kindly.” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @samanthajpower Samantha Power on x

  Zuckerberg's position exempting politicians from #Facebook standards is as incoherent as it is destructive. He won't prevent pols from using FB to incite violence & he won't let FB be an “arbiter of truth” even to fact-check pols' most brazen&harmful lies. https://www.nytimes.com…

• @justinhendrix @justinhendrix on x

  This is correct. If you work for Facebook, you must accept that your CEO has bowed to a bigoted authoritarian. https://twitter.com/...

• @buzz Buzz Andersen on x

  “Another employee compared working at Facebook to a comedy sketch by the duo Mitchell and Webb in which two SS officers are talking during World War II and one asks the other, ‘Are we the baddies?’” https://www.theverge.com/...

• @juddlegum Judd Legum on x

  1. YESTERDAY, Mark Zuckerberg said that if Trump promoted violence on Facebook, he would take action TODAY, Zuckerberg admitted Trump was promoting violence but said there is an (unwritten) exception for “warning about state action” In other words, it doesn't apply to Trump https…

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x

  Zuckerberg: “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.” https://www.facebook.com/..…

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Twitter and Facebook have the same basic policies around voter suppression and incitement to violence, and trump posted the same stuff to both platforms. Some FB employees are beginning to wonder what line must be crossed for the company to act. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  it's this clip. employees are sharing this @AOC on the Zuckerberg all-hands Q&A stream in protest. it is not going well https://twitter.com/...

• @ahmed Ahmed Al Omran on x

  Staying on the sidelines as Twitter does battle with Trump and his allies, Zuckerberg could gain unlikely Republican friends to stave off regulatory intervention into his business https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @donie Donie O'Sullivan on x

  Here's probably the reason we haven't heard from Facebook today. This is what Zuckerberg told Congress. https://twitter.com/...

• @laurahuu Laura Halminen on x

  Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump's threat of violence: “If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly” We can see they failed. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint @jason_kint on x

  A couple things here. 1) Monika Bickert is the Facebook exec who sat with colleague and misled Parliament in Feb 2018 as he stated emphatically Cambridge Analytica wouldn't have Facebook data one month before the world found out that was false. https://twitter.com/...

• @npr @npr on x

  The phrase President Trump tweeted goes back to the Civil Rights Era. It was used by a white police chief with “a long history of bigotry against the black community,” a scholar explains. And a segregationist politician. https://www.npr.org/...

• @ananny Mike Ananny on x

  Facebook employees can't explain the company's contortions: “'Would it be possible to explain in more detail the interpretation of our community standards?' one employee asked. ‘Does this post violate them but get an exemption, or is it not violating?’” https://www.theverge.com/.…

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  It's not just users that have an issue with @Facebook's decision not to enforce their own policies on posts with threats of violence, it's their own employees. And it should be their customers, too. If you're advertising on @Facebook, vote with your dollars. You support them. htt…

• @jasoncfry Jason Fry on x

  History's been saying that for nearly four years now, fellas. https://twitter.com/...

• @danielpunkass Daniel Jalkut on x

  It's hard to quit your job in a time of crisis, but if you work for Facebook and have the flexibility to do so, it would send a message. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffbigham Rogue P. Bigham on x

  zuck is sorry that trump incited violence but facebook has done nothing about it, even as twitter did something, ok?!? https://twitter.com/...

• @fraying @fraying on x

  It's journalistic malpractice to not mention anywhere in this story that the Trump campaign is giving millions, possibly billions, to Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @monteiro @monteiro on x

  Another vichy headline from the @nytimes. Mark Zuckerberg didn't “keep Facebook out of it.” Giving the Nazis harbor isn't a neutral stance. It's a complicit stance. Facebook is guilty from top to bottom. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @hshaban Hamza Shaban on x

  Facebook the communications platform with billions of users and incomprehensible amplifying power is very clearly not the same thing as a billboard on the highway. And disinformation explodes the bad speech/good speech thing. But Zuckerberg benefits from this idealized conception…

• @aoc Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on x

  If you work at Facebook and are inside agitating for change, thank you. Don't let up. Our democracy and the safety of so many lives are in the balance. Workers can tip it for the better. Keep pushing everywhere. We see you. https://twitter.com/...

• @oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x

  This wound up being a lie. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x

  In an April 22 scoop, Reuters reported that Facebook had secretly agreed to cooperate with the Vietnamese government in censoring content. https://twitter.com/...

• @dylanbyers Dylan Byers on x

  NEW Mark Zuckerberg: “I disagree strongly with how the President spoke... but I believe people should be able to see this for themselves, because ultimately accountability for those in positions of power can only happen when their speech is scrutinized...” https://www.facebook.co…

• @clarajeffery Clara Jeffery on x

  If you still work for Facebook...how do you rationalize it? https://twitter.com/...

• @b_fung Brian Fung on x

  Mark Zuckerberg has a blog post defending Facebook's decision not to act against Trump's posts re: Minneapolis. Says he had a “visceral negative reaction” personally, but that he is the “leader of an institution committed to free expression.” https://www.facebook.com/...

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Zuckerberg makes the call to keep POTUS' posts up inside Facebook so that people can see them for themselves, despite MZ's own “visceral negative reaction to this kind of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric.” https://www.facebook.com/...

• @alexeheath Alex Heath on x

  Mark Zuckerberg: “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...” https://www.facebook.com/...

• @nicdawes Nicholas Dawes on x

  Policy is necessary for getting this right, but the sufficient condition is leadership https://twitter.com/...

• @profgalloway Scott Galloway on x

  “Many people in the tech industry believe regulators ... are the one existential risk to Mr. Zuckerberg's business.” Sure won't be his conscience. There isn't one. piece by @MikeIsaac @ceciliakang https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @matthewfederman Matthew Federman on x

  History? The Present isn't judging them kindly. https://twitter.com/...

• @arainert @arainert on x

  “History will not judge us kindly” - FB employees... is a candidate for understatement of the decade. https://twitter.com/...

• @mollyjongfast Molly Jong-Fast on x

  Facebook really really really sucks https://twitter.com/...

• @jesselehrich Jesse Lehrich on x

  Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump's threat of violence “If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly” https://www.theverge.com/...

• @jesselehrich Jesse Lehrich on x

  FACEBOOK EMPLOYEE: “It's been said previously that inciting violence would cause a post to be removed. I too would like to know why the goals shifted, and where they are now.” https://www.theverge.com/...

• @ericschultz Eric Schultz on x

  If he's not going to be responsive to the country, wonder if he'll feel compelled to be responsive to his own team. Expect a lot more reporting on internal dissent. https://twitter.com/...

• @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci on x

  Facebook employees seem to not understand the company they are working for. https://twitter.com/...