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• @lizzadwoskin Elizabeth Dwoskin on x

  A day after the officer who shot Breonna Taylor wasn't indicted, Facebook employees face disciplinary action if they acknowledge her in a profile pic. Workers of color are LIVID over the new no political profile policy — especially cause Zuck said it was about protecting them.

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  The Zuckerberg realpolitik stuff in here is super interesting, but this caught my eye. Facebook's own engineers are scared about what the Groups algorithm is doing to people. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @shallowbrigade Kim O'Connor on x

  Facebook gladly peddles disinformation, won't take down posts from the President inciting violence, and has helped mainstream Qanon But a profile picture honoring the memory of a murdered woman is a bridge too far, according to Zuckerberg? https://twitter.com/...

• @sharonodea Sharon O'Dea on x

  Zuckerberg has a new post on FB's Workplace about stricter rules for staff discussions. 🙅‍♂️ More moderation 📈A curated ‘Trending’ section 🖼 No using a profile pic to support causes 🤫 Tighter defintion of what is “respectful communication” https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @dispositive Gautam Hans on x

  Weren't we told that FB cares deeply about civil rights? https://twitter.com/...

• @intelwire @intelwire on x

  Oh, so you *can* enforce rules about what kind of content is appropriate for your platform when you want to. Interesting. https://twitter.com/...

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Employees must now use avis of themselves or their initials, tho there is a pre-approved BLM frame. TL;DR a small minority of employees pissed in the pool and caused this change and leadership didn't want to take a stand.

• @tysonbrody Tyson Brody on x

  Zuck has realized what every business learns - slack is worse than email https://twitter.com/...

• @pinboard @pinboard on x

  It has been [0] days since Facebook employees were outraged https://twitter.com/...

• @pareene @pareene on x

  Mark is changing Facebook's internal forum to make it work less like Facebook https://twitter.com/...

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  UNREAL: The irony of @facebook continuing to preach FrEE SpEeCH to defend allowing hate, disinformation and violence on their platform while also telling employees they can't change their corporate profile shot to acknowledge Breonna Taylor is off the fucking charts. https://twit…

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  👇🏽 One of the many new restrictions on internal expression at FB. Employees can still use a limited number of photo frames (including one that says Black Lives Matter) but their profile photos have to be of themselves or their initials. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com…

• @zkarlinn Zev Karlin-Neumann on x

  FACEBOOK FOR US: “Holocaust denial is free speech! The group calling everyone satanic pedophiles is a-OK! The President didn't *technically* threaten to murder protestors!” FACEBOOK FOR FACEBOOK EMPLOYEES: “Whoah, whoah, what's with the BLM profile pic?” https://twitter.com/...

• @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x

  If you proposed that Facebook improve the quality of discussion on Facebook by doing more moderation they would of course note that it's less profitable to do it that way. https://twitter.com/...

• @william_fitz William Fitzgerald on x

  Facebook HR workers: Refuse to comply with this request. #BlackLivesMatter https://twitter.com/...

• @juliacarriew Julia Carrie Wong on x

  I am not a labor lawyer but taking away employees' right to use their profile pic to support causes sounds like a violation of the NLRA to me, especially since I believe this has been previously used by workers in a manner akin to union buttons... https://twitter.com/...

• @emilybell Emily Bell on x

  @CraigSilverman Wait....do these rules.......scale? If not - maybe don't apply them . Isn't that the FB moderation standard?

• @pareene @pareene on x

  Workplace generated a lot of engagement but it turned out, oddly, to be a lot of negative and unproductive engagement

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  the intended result of the right's campaign against protesters/blm is this exact kind of response from companies/employers/schools/ institutions of all kinds. https://twitter.com/...

• @mralancooper Alan Cooper on x

  Wow! Zuck knows the problem AND knows the solution. Too bad he won't apply the solution to actual Facebook for everybody else. This is exactly like conservatives who defund public schools but send their own kids to private schools. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattstephens Matt L. Stephens on x

  Mark Zuckerberg wants “respectful communication” in the workplace. But didn't he try to fire Palmer Luckey in 2016 for his political views before realizing he legally couldn't do that and then just phased him out? Set a high bar for civil discussion, but the CEO should abide, too…

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  this reminds me of the seminal @katienotopoulos post that these things are just high fallutin bits of Mod Drama https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @mattlargey Matt Largey on x

  maybe give the rest of the world this new version of Facebook, too. or just shut it down. either one is good with me. https://twitter.com/...

• @ericajoy Erica Joy on x

  i thought i had seen/heard it all, but this is...beyond. https://twitter.com/...

• @jason @jason on x

  Really @Facebook?! Is an employee's fb profile theirs or facebook's?! Interesting move if true—@finkd https://twitter.com/...

• @sivavaid Siva Vaidhyanathan on x

  Remember when Zuck stood up at Georgetown Universit and gave a long speech about free speech? Remember when I told you he was full of crap and didn't even understand what he was saying? Yeah. That. https://twitter.com/...

• @mattgertz Matthew Gertz on x

  tfw you inadvertently admit that the principles undergirding your product are toxic to communities that use it. https://twitter.com/...

• @rashadrobinson Rashad Robinson on x

  Just yesterday Sheryl Sandberg said Facebook was due ‘credit’ for helping our movement gain traction. Today we find out Facebook is retaliating against employees for speaking out about Breonna Taylor. The bar is on the floor and FB leadership finds new ways to tunnel underneath. …

• @craigsilverman Craig Silverman on x

  Some of the details are in this CNBC report, though it does now quote Zuck directly. What's remarkable is that disccusions among employees/contractors have created some of the exact same problems we see on Facebook the public platform. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @sal19 @sal19 on x

  Facebook adds more guidelines for internal employee speech, banning political images in profile pics https://www.cnbc.com/... tip @Techmeme