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Zuckerberg's handling of Trump Posts Facebook Engineer Resigns
The Social Media Giant is a Facebook technician who works against the disclosure of the platform as a result of how CEO Zuckerberg handled the "continuously dangereous rhetoric" of President Trump.
Monday afternoon, Timothy Aveni declared his decision on Facebook by calling on the corporation to enforce its own group standards unequally.
"For years, President Trump has been an exception to the Community Expectations of Facebook, and he has regularly shared horrific target messages removed from the site from any other user on Facebook," he said. "His political speech is 'newsworthy,' so he is allowed to break the rules.'"
"Mark always told us to draw the line in words calling for violence," continued Aveni. "It was a lie, he told us on Friday. Whenever Trump escalates, Facebook will still push the target points, making reasons for not acting on even more reckless rhetoric.
In a week since the death of the Black man George Floyd, who was killed after white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his nose, Trump posted on Facebook. Trump called demonstrators "THUGS" in one video and said "when the ransacking ends, the shooting ends," a racist policeman from Miami spoke about civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s.
The brand did not endorse the tweets, however, saying that "in the public's interest" it was in the president's place to remain available. The label claimed that the tweets were in breach of laws against "glorification of abuse."
Nothing has been done by Facebook. Zuckerberg met on Monday to explain his decision which was later called inconceivably by several leaders of civil rights.
"I've spent a great deal of time trying to understand and analyze the decision not to take away Thursday night 's racist and aggressive post Trump but to get on the wrong side of history with Facebook's promotion of armed hatred," Aveni wrote.
"I can't continue to apologize for the conduct of Facebook," he continued. “Facebook is providing a platform that enables politicians to radicalize individuals and glorify violence, and we are watching the United States succumb to the same kind of social media-fueled division that has gotten people killed in the Philippines, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. ” Politicians in those countries have used Facebook — and Facebook-owned WhatsApp — to spread disinformation that can result in remarkable violence. In Myanmar, for example, U.N. human rights experts strongly implicated Facebook in acts of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.
“I’m scared for my country and I’m done trying to justify this,” Aveni closed, noting his last day will be June 12.
Facebook didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
