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Facebook employees speak up against no action on Trump post
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IANS | 01 Jun, 2020
Several Facebook employees have
come out in the open to protest the social media giant's stand on not
taking action on a controversial post from US President Donald Trump
about Minnesota protests.
"I believe Trump's "when the looting
starts, the shooting starts" tweet (cross-posted to FB), encourages
extra-judicial violence and stokes racism. Respect to @Twitter's
integrity team for making the enforcement call," David Gillis, Director,
Product Design at Facebook, said in a tweet on Sunday.
While
Twtitter last week put out a "public interest notice" on the tweet for
violating the platform's policies about glorifying violence, Facebook
refused to take action when the tweet was cross-posted to its platform.
Defending
the decision to not take action on the controversial posts, Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said that its "policy around incitement of
violence allows discussion around state use of force".
"We
looked very closely at the post that discussed the protests in Minnesota
to evaluate whether it violated our policies," Zuckerberg wrote.
"Our
policy around incitement of violence allows discussion around state use
of force, although I think today's situation raises important questions
about what potential limits of that discussion should be," he said.
"Unlike
Twitter, we do not have a policy of putting a warning in front of posts
that may incite violence because we believe that if a post incites
violence, it should be removed regardless of whether it is newsworthy,
even if it comes from a politician," Zuckerberg added.
In a series of tweets, Gillis argued that policy "needs to evolve" and take more context into account.
"While
I understand why we chose to stay squarely within the four corners of
our violence and incitement policy, I think it would have been right for
us to make a 'spirit of the policy' exception that took more context
into account," he said.
"At any rate, when we have to vigorously
debate whether to make an exception to the way we interpret and enforce a
given policy (as happened on Friday), this often indicates that said
policy needs to evolve. I think that is the case here," he said.
Another Facebook employee tweeted that he was not proud of how Facebook reacted.
"I
work at Facebook and I am not proud of how we're showing up. The
majority of coworkers I've spoken to feel the same way. We are making
our voice heard," said Jason Toff, Director of Product Management at
Facebook.
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