Facebook Employees Slam Zuckerberg Over Militia Groups And QAnon After Kenosha

[demmiblue]

Frustrated Facebook employees slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday during a company-wide meeting, questioning his leadership and decision-making, following a week in which the platform promoted violent conspiracy theories and gave safe harbor to militia groups. The billionaire chief executive was speaking via webcast at the company’s weekly all-hands meeting, attempting to address questions about violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and the QAnon conspiracy that has proliferated across Facebook.

The meeting came one day after the Verge reported that a self-proclaimed militia group calling itself “Kenosha Guard” had used its Facebook page to issue a “call to arms” — violating Facebook's own policies — and remained online even though at least two people reported it before the shooting. It also followed weeks of employee unrest, in which the company’s rank and file has urged the CEO to combat the spread of QAnon-related content on its platform.

All of Facebook’s more than 50,000 employees can watch and comment on the stream during the meeting, or view a recording after its conclusion — and as Zuckerberg spoke, angry comments poured in.

“At what point do we take responsibility for enabling hate filled bile to spread across our services?” wrote one employee. “[A]nti semitism, conspiracy, and white supremacy reeks across our services.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employees-slam-zuckerberg-kenosha-militia-shooting

[SheltieLover]

1. Can he be sued by victim families?

[sheshe2]

2. He is a trump clone.

He takes no responsibility. He sits back, laughs as the world burns, watches people die and counts his money.

Just Like Trump!

[Blecht]

3. Waiting for the wave of people saying how having a Facebook account is harmless fun

You are fucking killing people by being a part of Facebook.

Delete your account.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. +1

The "but, I can keep up with family" excuse annoys me.
Texts can be set up for groups.
Phone calls, with readable voice mail can be set up for groups.
Email address books can be set up with groups.
If one really wants to stay in touch, there's plenty of easy, efficient means, better than letting this hate liberating monolith rake in more advertising dollars.

[SoonerPride]

5. Facebook is a cancer on our country

[uponit7771]

6. Zuckerberg has been compromised, there's something really wrong at FB