In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Protests Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC : Hundreds of Facebook employees walk out as Zuckerberg plans town hall Jack Morse / Mashable : Talkspace bails on Facebook deal, CEO cites ‘violence, racism, and lies’ Jeff Green / Bloomberg : Zuckerberg Leaves Race Justice Leader Frustrated After Call Engadget : The Morning After: Alexa's new ‘Drop In’ intercom system Sareena Dayaram / CNET : Civil rights leaders slam Zuckerberg over response to Trump posts, says report James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Facebook employees stage virtual walkout after controversial Trump post Erin Woo / The Stanford Daily : Stanford Law professor Michael McConnell, who was recently named a co-chair of Facebook's Oversight Board, faces criticism after saying the N-word in a class Rob Price / Business Insider : Facebook employees are holding a virtual walkout against the company's handling of Trump's posts Whizy Kim / Refinery29 : Facebook Employees Staged A Virtual Walkout Today SBS News : Facebook staff stage virtual walkout over Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to act against Donald Trump Bob Brigham / Raw Story : Ad-Free Login - Go Ad-Free & Join The Movement Brett T. / Twitchy : Some Facebook employees staging ‘virtual walkout’ over President Trump's recent posts ‘inciting violence’ Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch : Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company's stance on Trump posts Queenie Wong / CNET : Facebook employees stage rare protest against Zuckerberg's response to Trump Tweets: @sugarpirate_ : Facebook's inaction in taking down Trump's post inciting violence makes me ashamed to work here. I absolutely disagree with it. I enjoy the technical parts of my job and working alongside smart/kind people, but this isn't right. Silence is complicity. Andrew / @andrewcrow : Censoring information that might help people see the complete picture *is* wrong. But giving a platform to incite violence and spread disinformation is unacceptable, regardless who you are or if it's newsworthy. I disagree with Mark's position and will work to make change happen. @ktzhu : i'm taking PTO from @instagram by @facebook today for #BlackLivesMatter. i'm deeply disappointed & ashamed in how the company is showing up the world rn. fb fam - if u feel similarly, join me & let's organize. put your ~$~zuck bucks~$ where ur tweets are. support Black-led orgs!! https://twitter.com/... Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : FB's security team is warning employees not to wear Facebook-branded clothing at protests to avoid “unwanted attention” Rat King / @mikeisaac : Facebook employees are staging an internal walkout in protest of Mark zuckerberg's decision to keep the President's inflammatory posts up, despite the company's policies on incitement to violence and voter suppression. w @sheeraf https://www.nytimes.com/... Luna Ruan / @lunaruan : The React Core team is joining the Facebook employee walkout in solidarity with the Black community. Facebookʼs recent decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. We implore the Facebook leadership to #TakeAction. https://twitter.com/... Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew : Facebook's oversight board has not even started hearing cases yet, and it's already had to issue a statement expressing “appreciation” that one of its co-chairs has committed not to say the N-word anymore. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... David Kaye / @davidakaye : employee activism at facebook, following a pattern we've seen at Google (see Dragonfly) and elsewhere https://twitter.com/... Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : Nothing like this has ever happened at Facebook. Employees always voiced dissent internally. Today's walkout is a sign that anger is spilling over, and that employees don't feel heard by Zuckerberg/Sandberg https://www.nytimes.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : “The more successful Facebook is in accomplishing its mission, the more ignorance, deception and the like there appears to be in the world.” Former Facebook pr exec @BarrySchnitt https://medium.com/... Owen Anderson / @owenresistor : I am proud to announce that as of the end of today, I am no longer a Facebook employee. Sara Zhang / @superrrsara : As allies we must stand in the way of danger, not behind. I will be participating in today's virtual walkout in solidarity with the black community inside and outside FB. #BlackLivesMatter @cnbcfastmoney : Facebook update: $FB shares climbed 3% today despite a virtual employee walkout. Here's what that could mean for the stock, per @timseymour. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Nguyen / @knguyen : Seeing a lot of distraught tech workers that are disappointed in the companies they work for. You can always leave! Your skills are needed elsewhere. I left and I've never regretted it for a moment. Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : Facebook now tells me they support the employees walking out in protest of the Trump post decision and therefore will not be making them spend one of their PTO days on a walkout Casey Newton / @caseynewton : New from me: In leaked audio from an employee all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg expressed “disgust” with Trump's posts last week and said Facebook would reexamine its policies around content related to state violence https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jeannine Schafer / @neenerbot : I don't agree with @Facebook's decision to not act on posts that incite violence. We implore leadership to revisit it. #TakeAction #BlackLivesMatter https://twitter.com/... Tim Quirino / @timquirino : Facebook's decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. It pigeonholes us to address harmful user-facing content in 2 ways: keep content up or take it down. We can do better. We are asking to #TakeAction #BlackLivesMatter https://twitter.com/... Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang : Updated: “Along with Black employees in the company, and all persons with a moral conscience, I am calling for Mark to immediately take down the President's post advocating violence, murder and imminent threat against Black people."- FB employee. https://www.nytimes.com/... X A-Xii Mims / @mims : Former director of corporate comms and public policy at Facebook 👇 https://twitter.com/... Bruce Arthur / @bruce_arthur : When history arrives, you have to pick a side https://twitter.com/... Jeet Heer / @heerjeet : I would strongly encourage anyone working at Facebook to join this walkout — it's your big chance to stop your company from contributing to America's self-destruction. https://twitter.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Facebook employees are requesting time off today, putting an out of office message on their emails saying they're protesting company policy, and working on a list of demands to put to management. https://www.nytimes.com/... @pwnallthethings : Zuck on TV: Twitter is bad and wrong for fact checking T's tweets. Tech cos should be neutral, not “editorialize”, push back or censor. Zuck on FB: The President's tweets and posts are bad and wrong and we had a long debate over whether to remove them https://twitter.com/... Benny Wong / @bdotdub : I DO NOT agree w Mark's choice not to label posts that incite violence I am making my voice heard in internally. And also “walking” out today ✊ https://twitter.com/... Susan Fowler / @susanthesquark : I second this. Leaving big tech was one of the best decisions I ever made. https://twitter.com/... Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson : The dam is really breaking at Facebook/Instagram with employees all over the place going public with their anger at the Zuckerberg's position regarding Trump. (Ironically they're using Twitter to get the word out.) https://twitter.com/... Shannon Coulter / @shannoncoulter : I respect so much a very senior designer at Facebook would say this. I guess I do wonder if there's ever a point at which an employee becomes legitimately complicit in a problem that harms society so profoundly? If you literally make the thing that is doing the harm...? https://twitter.com/... @rmac18 : Threads like these are terrible for recruiting and morale, moreso when employees are working from home and unable to interact in person. Feels like FB management will be dealing with the externalities of its Trump decision for a long time. https://twitter.com/... Sebastian / @sebmck : If you work for Facebook please make a tweet like this. It's honestly the least you can do. For those with large audiences not saying anything is even more egregious. https://twitter.com/... @ericajoy : @jasontoff jason, meet katie. time to organize! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Elizabeth Dwoskin / @lizzadwoskin : BREAKING: Twitter has now labeled another tweet by GOP ppl @mattgaetz because they say it violates the company's policies advocating violence. This puts more pressure on Facebook on a day when employees are already up in arms. https://twitter.com/... Vincent Riemer / @vincentriemer : I stand with my fellow employees and the Black community in expressing our anger towards the decision Facebook leadership has made that demonstrably fails to uphold the company's own “maxims” in keeping people safe and being bold. They need to do better and #TakeAction https://twitter.com/... David Kaye / @davidakaye : as fb employees speak out, my hope is that the demands not revolve solely around a specific trump post but focus on the stds that apply to content, the company's responsibility to respect rights (not just speech), & radical transparency around content moderation. https://twitter.com/... Mike Dudas / @mdudas : Facebook employees have an incredible power to change the world. This is the tech story to watch in the coming weeks. https://www.techmeme.com/... Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn : something something arbiters of truth https://twitter.com/... Cori Crider / @cori_crider : If you are joining the #FacebookWalkout, thank you. Know that your colleagues on the front lines of content moderation are having a tough time, dealing with some terrible things on their feed. If employees are interested in joining hands with moderators, let's talk. https://twitter.com/... Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew : If you work at Facebook and want to talk about this or anything else, I'm around. DM for Signal/WhatsApp Julia.carrie.wong@protonmail.com @sal19 : To any Facebook employees who might be considering speaking with me, here's some of my past work. Give it a read and decide if you want to chat with me: https://www.cnbc.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/... Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : We've updated our story from this morning. There are now hundreds of Facebook employees participating in today's walkout. https://www.nytimes.com/... Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth : Dare I say, Facebook employees are leaning in. https://twitter.com/... @sal19 : Asked if FB's leadership will have a meeting to reconsider its decision, per the request of the employees partaking in today's virtual walkout, a Facebook spokesman told CNBC that the company has “No comment on this” Jack Poulson / @_jack_poulson : It only took 9 Google workers — the “Group of Nine” — to block federal cloud cert. and kickstart the rejection of Google's aid to drone warfare. This was the seed for the DoD adopting its own AI Principles. A small group of workers can collectively have a huge impact. https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : For those curious: hearing from two sources that ~400 people have participated in today's Facebook walkout so far. If I'm undercounting or you have more info hit me up! https://twitter.com/... Ross Gerber / @gerberkawasaki : Look at this. Facebook employees now realizing they are basically working for the forces of zucks evil empire. Plenty of other places to work. $fb #DeleteFacebook https://twitter.com/... Juli Briskman / @julibriskman : It's time for Facebook to take some responsibility. Twitter is stepping up and so should Facebook. https://twitter.com/... Chelsea Handler / @chelseahandler : I like to see this. How can celebrities do the same? #ListenUpZuck #GetTheFacts https://twitter.com/... Brooke Hammerling / @brooke : Well this is hitting it where it hurts. Things won't change just because of public outrage. Or internal outrage. But because of $$$$. Wow Talkspace....BOLD. Courageous. https://twitter.com/... Ina Fried / @inafried : Facebook workers now posting publicly as part of next phase of walkout https://twitter.com/... Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : An entire team joins: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ted / @tedonprivacy : Having Google leadership co-opt the Walkout with “we support you protesting sexual harassment” was exceedingly frustrating. Facebook workers, make it clear that you're protesting *your management*. Name leaders. Make it crystal clear to press. Stay on message. Good luck, y'all. https://twitter.com/... Rehat / @rhtkth : fb employees, spare me. speak with your actions by handing your notice in. this is the tech equivelant of thoughts and prayers. https://twitter.com/... @godisrivera : To those employees standing up for Black lives at FB & IG right now, as a Black woman here at Twitter I stand with you all & support your effort to shine a light on what's right. Our lives, our equality & our justice are deeper than any industry rivalry. We are standing with you. https://twitter.com/... @sugarpirate_ : “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Facebook employees do a legitimately brave thing and my whole timeline is like “big deal, let me know when they end capitalism” Jack Poulson / @_jack_poulson : “We encourage employees to speak openly when they disagree with leadership.” You know what would help with this? Formally committing your company to not prosecuting potential NDA violations when employees speak out in the public interest. Anything less is disingenuous. https://twitter.com/... Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery : Ok some of them are doing a walk-out. We'll see how many and what they do when Zuck gets rolled by Trump, again: https://twitter.com/... @nytimes : Dozens of Facebook employees, in rare public criticism of their own company, staged a virtual walkout in protest of executives' inaction on inflammatory posts by President Trump https://www.nytimes.com/... Mark Warner / @markwarner : I'm glad to see Twitter taking action on the President's attempts to mislead voters, in violation of the platform's rules. It's a shame that Facebook seems unwilling to stand up for truth on its platform. https://twitter.com/... Sam Esmail / @samesmail : Facebook's best moment to date. https://twitter.com/... Mylittlecorner / @mylittlecorne11 : Good. We'll see if it changes anything besides their employment status. 😳 https://twitter.com/... Matt Klinman / @mattklinman : Don't fall for the “facebook is a platform for free expression” meme. Facebook is a platform for whatever forms of expression Facebook can make money on. https://twitter.com/... Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Facebook HATES playing second fiddle to Twitter (see: WFH policy roll out). Its employees know what they're doing. Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Won't be lost on Facebook leadership that its employees are speaking out through Twitter. Brad Smith / @bradsmi : We can and must do more to advance social justice and support the Black and African American community. https://twitter.com/... @pwnallthethings : He's just so ridiculously two-faced on this issue, and totally willing to beat up Twitter for their decision without realizing the same bat will be used to beat his own company for identical decisions he's currently making when Twitter is done. @can : Congratulations on PTO https://twitter.com/... Mathew Ingram / @mathewi : This kind of public protest is unheard of at Facebook, at least in my memory — will be very interested to see how the company handles this: https://www.techmeme.com/... @pinboard : The next step in this sequence is an emotional all-hands and then a beautiful letter of apology from Zuckerberg, selected by Facebook's apology sommelier Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : Does this mean Facebook's pivot to free speech now includes employees? https://twitter.com/... Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : NYT: — Zuckerberg has moved up his weekly meeting with employees to Tuesday from Thursday. — Facebook claims “We encourage employees to speak openly when they disagree with leadership” — Employees have called for the resignation of Joel Kaplan https://www.nytimes.com/... @joshhaber : @Techmeme They should keep walking. Nicole Nguyen / @nicnguyen : Tech worker dissent has been one of the most interesting stories of our time, and there's no indication it's winding down any time soon https://twitter.com/... Alex Thompson / @alxthomp : Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts Two senior Facebook employees informed their managers that they would resign if Mr. Zuckerberg did not reverse his decision. https://www.nytimes.com/... Dr. Dena Grayson / @drdenagrayson : 🔥@Facebook employees are staging a walkout today for the 1st time in the company's history, and some have threatened to QUIT, in protest of Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow @realDonaldTrump's racist post that incites violence to stand. #DeleteFacebook https://www.nytimes.com/... @pinboard : AOL keyword: “virtual”. I believe this is the second invisible internal walkout, not the first—there was one during the travel ban that no one noticed. https://twitter.com/... Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : “More than a dozen current and former employees have described the unrest as the most serious challenge to Mr. Zuckerberg's leadership since the company was founded 15 years ago.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : Facebook employees are staging a virtual walkout, in a rare public display of criticism, the NYT reports. — employees added an automated message to their emails saying that they were out in a show of protest — they continue to discuss list of demands https://www.nytimes.com/... Rebecca Ballhaus / @rebeccaballhaus : Dozens of Facebook employees, in rare public criticism of their own company, protested executives' decision not to do anything about inflammatory posts that Trump had placed on the giant social media platform over the last week. https://www.nytimes.com/... Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : If Facebook was your sole news source, and you saw only the most popular links on the platform, you'd think that what happened this weekend was a violent, unprovoked attack on law enforcement by a left-wing terror group. See also Mediagazer
Facebook's inaction in taking down Trump's post inciting violence makes me ashamed to work here. I absolutely disagree with it. I enjoy the technical parts of my job and working alongside smart/kind people, but this isn't right. Silence is complicity.
Censoring information that might help people see the complete picture *is* wrong. But giving a platform to incite violence and spread disinformation is unacceptable, regardless who you are or if it's newsworthy. I disagree with Mark's position and will work to make change happen.
i'm taking PTO from @instagram by @facebook today for #BlackLivesMatter. i'm deeply disappointed & ashamed in how the company is showing up the world rn. fb fam - if u feel similarly, join me & let's organize. put your ~$~zuck bucks~$ where ur tweets are. support Black-led orgs!!…
Facebook employees are staging an internal walkout in protest of Mark zuckerberg's decision to keep the President's inflammatory posts up, despite the company's policies on incitement to violence and voter suppression. w @sheeraf https://www.nytimes.com/...
The React Core team is joining the Facebook employee walkout in solidarity with the Black community. Facebookʼs recent decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. We implore the Facebook leadership to #TakeAction. https://tw…
Facebook's oversight board has not even started hearing cases yet, and it's already had to issue a statement expressing “appreciation” that one of its co-chairs has committed not to say the N-word anymore. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Nothing like this has ever happened at Facebook. Employees always voiced dissent internally. Today's walkout is a sign that anger is spilling over, and that employees don't feel heard by Zuckerberg/Sandberg https://www.nytimes.com/...
“The more successful Facebook is in accomplishing its mission, the more ignorance, deception and the like there appears to be in the world.” Former Facebook pr exec @BarrySchnitt https://medium.com/...
As allies we must stand in the way of danger, not behind. I will be participating in today's virtual walkout in solidarity with the black community inside and outside FB. #BlackLivesMatter
Facebook update: $FB shares climbed 3% today despite a virtual employee walkout. Here's what that could mean for the stock, per @timseymour. https://twitter.com/...
Seeing a lot of distraught tech workers that are disappointed in the companies they work for. You can always leave! Your skills are needed elsewhere. I left and I've never regretted it for a moment.
Facebook now tells me they support the employees walking out in protest of the Trump post decision and therefore will not be making them spend one of their PTO days on a walkout
New from me: In leaked audio from an employee all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg expressed “disgust” with Trump's posts last week and said Facebook would reexamine its policies around content related to state violence https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
I don't agree with @Facebook's decision to not act on posts that incite violence. We implore leadership to revisit it. #TakeAction #BlackLivesMatter https://twitter.com/...
Facebook's decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. It pigeonholes us to address harmful user-facing content in 2 ways: keep content up or take it down. We can do better. We are asking to #TakeAction #BlackLivesMatter htt…
Updated: “Along with Black employees in the company, and all persons with a moral conscience, I am calling for Mark to immediately take down the President's post advocating violence, murder and imminent threat against Black people."- FB employee. https://www.nytimes.com/...
I would strongly encourage anyone working at Facebook to join this walkout — it's your big chance to stop your company from contributing to America's self-destruction. https://twitter.com/...
Facebook employees are requesting time off today, putting an out of office message on their emails saying they're protesting company policy, and working on a list of demands to put to management. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zuck on TV: Twitter is bad and wrong for fact checking T's tweets. Tech cos should be neutral, not “editorialize”, push back or censor. Zuck on FB: The President's tweets and posts are bad and wrong and we had a long debate over whether to remove them https://twitter.com/...
I DO NOT agree w Mark's choice not to label posts that incite violence I am making my voice heard in internally. And also “walking” out today ✊ https://twitter.com/...
The dam is really breaking at Facebook/Instagram with employees all over the place going public with their anger at the Zuckerberg's position regarding Trump. (Ironically they're using Twitter to get the word out.) https://twitter.com/...
I respect so much a very senior designer at Facebook would say this. I guess I do wonder if there's ever a point at which an employee becomes legitimately complicit in a problem that harms society so profoundly? If you literally make the thing that is doing the harm...? https://t…
Threads like these are terrible for recruiting and morale, moreso when employees are working from home and unable to interact in person. Feels like FB management will be dealing with the externalities of its Trump decision for a long time. https://twitter.com/...
If you work for Facebook please make a tweet like this. It's honestly the least you can do. For those with large audiences not saying anything is even more egregious. https://twitter.com/...
BREAKING: Twitter has now labeled another tweet by GOP ppl @mattgaetz because they say it violates the company's policies advocating violence. This puts more pressure on Facebook on a day when employees are already up in arms. https://twitter.com/...
I stand with my fellow employees and the Black community in expressing our anger towards the decision Facebook leadership has made that demonstrably fails to uphold the company's own “maxims” in keeping people safe and being bold. They need to do better and #TakeAction https://tw…
as fb employees speak out, my hope is that the demands not revolve solely around a specific trump post but focus on the stds that apply to content, the company's responsibility to respect rights (not just speech), & radical transparency around content moderation. https://twitter.…
If you are joining the #FacebookWalkout, thank you. Know that your colleagues on the front lines of content moderation are having a tough time, dealing with some terrible things on their feed. If employees are interested in joining hands with moderators, let's talk. https://twitt…
To any Facebook employees who might be considering speaking with me, here's some of my past work. Give it a read and decide if you want to chat with me: https://www.cnbc.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/... https://www.cnbc.com/...
Asked if FB's leadership will have a meeting to reconsider its decision, per the request of the employees partaking in today's virtual walkout, a Facebook spokesman told CNBC that the company has “No comment on this”
It only took 9 Google workers — the “Group of Nine” — to block federal cloud cert. and kickstart the rejection of Google's aid to drone warfare. This was the seed for the DoD adopting its own AI Principles. A small group of workers can collectively have a huge impact. https://twi…
For those curious: hearing from two sources that ~400 people have participated in today's Facebook walkout so far. If I'm undercounting or you have more info hit me up! https://twitter.com/...
Look at this. Facebook employees now realizing they are basically working for the forces of zucks evil empire. Plenty of other places to work. $fb #DeleteFacebook https://twitter.com/...
Well this is hitting it where it hurts. Things won't change just because of public outrage. Or internal outrage. But because of $$$$. Wow Talkspace....BOLD. Courageous. https://twitter.com/...
Having Google leadership co-opt the Walkout with “we support you protesting sexual harassment” was exceedingly frustrating. Facebook workers, make it clear that you're protesting *your management*. Name leaders. Make it crystal clear to press. Stay on message. Good luck, y'all. h…
fb employees, spare me. speak with your actions by handing your notice in. this is the tech equivelant of thoughts and prayers. https://twitter.com/...
To those employees standing up for Black lives at FB & IG right now, as a Black woman here at Twitter I stand with you all & support your effort to shine a light on what's right. Our lives, our equality & our justice are deeper than any industry rivalry. We are standing with you.…
“We encourage employees to speak openly when they disagree with leadership.” You know what would help with this? Formally committing your company to not prosecuting potential NDA violations when employees speak out in the public interest. Anything less is disingenuous. https://tw…
Dozens of Facebook employees, in rare public criticism of their own company, staged a virtual walkout in protest of executives' inaction on inflammatory posts by President Trump https://www.nytimes.com/...
I'm glad to see Twitter taking action on the President's attempts to mislead voters, in violation of the platform's rules. It's a shame that Facebook seems unwilling to stand up for truth on its platform. https://twitter.com/...
Don't fall for the “facebook is a platform for free expression” meme. Facebook is a platform for whatever forms of expression Facebook can make money on. https://twitter.com/...
He's just so ridiculously two-faced on this issue, and totally willing to beat up Twitter for their decision without realizing the same bat will be used to beat his own company for identical decisions he's currently making when Twitter is done.
This kind of public protest is unheard of at Facebook, at least in my memory — will be very interested to see how the company handles this: https://www.techmeme.com/...
The next step in this sequence is an emotional all-hands and then a beautiful letter of apology from Zuckerberg, selected by Facebook's apology sommelier
NYT: — Zuckerberg has moved up his weekly meeting with employees to Tuesday from Thursday. — Facebook claims “We encourage employees to speak openly when they disagree with leadership” — Employees have called for the resignation of Joel Kaplan https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tech worker dissent has been one of the most interesting stories of our time, and there's no indication it's winding down any time soon https://twitter.com/...
Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts Two senior Facebook employees informed their managers that they would resign if Mr. Zuckerberg did not reverse his decision. https://www.nytimes.com/...
🔥@Facebook employees are staging a walkout today for the 1st time in the company's history, and some have threatened to QUIT, in protest of Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow @realDonaldTrump's racist post that incites violence to stand. #DeleteFacebook https://www.nytimes.com/.…
AOL keyword: “virtual”. I believe this is the second invisible internal walkout, not the first—there was one during the travel ban that no one noticed. https://twitter.com/...
“More than a dozen current and former employees have described the unrest as the most serious challenge to Mr. Zuckerberg's leadership since the company was founded 15 years ago.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Facebook employees are staging a virtual walkout, in a rare public display of criticism, the NYT reports. — employees added an automated message to their emails saying that they were out in a show of protest — they continue to discuss list of demands https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dozens of Facebook employees, in rare public criticism of their own company, protested executives' decision not to do anything about inflammatory posts that Trump had placed on the giant social media platform over the last week. https://www.nytimes.com/...
If Facebook was your sole news source, and you saw only the most popular links on the platform, you'd think that what happened this weekend was a violent, unprovoked attack on law enforcement by a left-wing terror group.