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Leaked posts show workers on Facebook telling them to delete the threat of violence from Trump
Facebook's decision not to take action against recent posts concerning mail-in votes and Minnesota protestations by President Trump is pushing employees. Some workers have questioned the company's neutral stance in response to an internal post explaining the rationale for the policy.
"I have to admit I'm finding the contradictions through which we have to travel extremely hard to swallow," a shooting post officer writes in a message. "All suggests that there is a very high risk of a violent rise in civil unrest in November, and history will not judge us kindly if we fail the test case here."
On Tuesday, Twitter identified two mail-in voting tweets as "probably misleading" because they indicated that the practice would lead to a rigid vote. Another tweet for the warning against "glorified violence" was put on Twitter early Friday morning because he included the sentence "If the looting begins, the shooting starts." Tweets were always posted on Facebook.
During these events, Monika Bickert, vice president of the corporation's global strategy, wrote a long post about Workplace, the company's internal Facebook edition, which explains why the organization did not act on the ballot post.
Bickert wrote in a post which received more than 700 comments on Thursday "We reviewed the argument and found that it does not violate our rules against voting interference because it does not deceive people about the way they can register to vote or the various ways they can vote." "If it had, we would have absolutely removed this post from our website because our political intervention policy extends to everyone, including politicians."
She continued: "We don't think that a private technology firm like Facebook ought to be vetting, in political debate, what politicians say. The speech by the candidates and elected officials are highly scrutinized and debated, as is the case with the tweets of the President. We believe that people should be allowed to hear what politicians are saying, make their own thoughts and hold politicians accountable.
Instead he posted a message to Facebook indicating that people protesting George Floyd 's death by Minnesota police are being aggressively assaulted.
Employee suggested that no one had responded "because Facebook's employee community has repeatedly shown that private deliberations will be leaked to the press and taken out of context."
"I don't think there is anything employees are asking here that the public doesn't deserve to know," a colleague replied.But another post viewed by The Verge suggest that "was considered non-violating" an initial review of Trump's "shooting" post.
"Make me sad and frankly ashamed," one responding employee wrote. "It wasn't the final assessment, I hope? Hopefully there is still someone somewhere discussing how and why this is clearly advocating for violence? ” Wrote a second: "It has been said before that a message may be deleted by encouraging abuse. I just want to know why and where the targets have changed.
Another staff member compared work on Facebook to a comedy sketch by the Mitchell and the Webb pair, in which two SS officers spoke during the second world war. "There was 'yeah, obviously," now that the employee was up every morning at the FB, and that he had to run through my head, instantly followed by the GIF of the sketch.
"It's frankly difficult for me to take the words of our leadership 's help seriously this morning if we allow material such as this to take place on our web site"
"Is it worthwhile to make direct, violent threats against Black protestors whatever we are getting through not acting upon it? ”
Facebook had no immediate comment.
