Some Facebook employees say internal forum admins froze comments on at least three threads in which employees discussed removing Trump from the site
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @dellcam , @themadstone , @zacharylipton , @parismarx , @johnpaczkowski , @b_fung , @iancoldwater , @kathbarbadoro , @notdetails , and @techwontsaveus Tweets: Dell Cameron / @dellcam : Facebook stopped employees from discussing how it should respond to today's violence on Capitol Hill, freezing multiple active threads on an employee-only message board - per @RMac18: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Maddie Stone / @themadstone : Leave it to Facebook to have the most utterly craven response to the attempted subversion of democracy https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Zachary Lipton / @zacharylipton : But what happened to “information wants to be free”. Are you OK with this @ylecun? Where's your statement? We need leaders, and you are the best positioned AI researcher to demand more from Zuckerberg. https://twitter.com/... @parismarx : Sounds like a good time for Facebook workers to form a union so they can exert their power. https://twitter.com/... John Paczkowski / @johnpaczkowski : “Can we get some courage and actual action from leadership in response to this behavior? Your silence is disappointing at the least and criminal at worst.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @RMac18 Brian Fung / @b_fung : Zuckerberg insists Facebook is a platform for free speech, except apparently when it comes to his own employees. https://twitter.com/... Ian Coldwater / @iancoldwater : hey Facebook employees, there are companies out there that won't pull this bullshit. You don't have to live that way https://twitter.com/... Kath Barbadoro / @kathbarbadoro : every single thing that has happened today in response to these bozos should make you very scared about what will happen when the people doing it aren't bozos https://twitter.com/... Joel Califa / @notdetails : So you know Zuckerberg's long history of using “free speech” and anti-censorship as his excuse for platforming Nazis? https://twitter.com/... @techwontsaveus : Facebook employees “were scared and frustrated” at fascists storming the US Capitol. When they started discussing it an internal message board, “Facebook moved to silence them.” “What excuse did we use not to ban him this time?” asked one worker. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...