facebook employee resigns over zuckerberg's 'lie'

[butters]

Timothy J. Aveni
June 1 at 1:18 PM ·
I'm resigning from my job at Facebook.

For years, President Trump has enjoyed an exception to Facebook’s Community Standards; over and over he posts abhorrent, targeted messages that would get any other Facebook user suspended from the platform. He’s permitted to break the rules, since his political speech is “newsworthy.”

“when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie. Facebook will keep moving the goalposts every time Trump escalates, finding excuse after excuse not to act on increasingly dangerous rhetoric. Since Friday, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand and process the decision not to remove the racist, violent post Trump made Thursday night, but Facebook, complicit in the propagation of weaponized hatred, is on the wrong side of history.

I cannot keep excusing Facebook’s behavior. 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. I’m scared for my country and I’m done trying to justify this.

My last day will be June 12th. If you have contacts in the San Francisco Bay Area looking to recruit a software engineer, please DM me.

#blacklivesmatter

a man with some principles

 

[Rightguide]

I'm sure Zuckerberg is stung by resignation.

 

[HisArpy]

Hey all you dumfuks out there who lost their job due to CV19 - FACEBOOK HAS AN OPENING!!!!

 

[hobbit.]

He might have principles - but he also now doesnt have a job. Suckerberk though still has a vary handsome source of income and access to all kinds of personal information on millions of people all of which is currency (forget GDPR etc). Its not strange then that he should allow such latitude to governments and agenda setters.

 

[pointless]

i'll never understand people who still use facebook and instagram. this is on you fuckers for agreeing to be their product. fuck you.

 

[hogjack]

a man with some principles

Some Far Left social media organization (which is almost all of them) will hire him.

Twitter and/or Yahoo! human resources are on the move!

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

i'll never understand people who still use facebook and instagram. this is on you fuckers for agreeing to be their product. fuck you.

this.

 

[Richard_C]

Zuckerberg is a first class ahole to everyone which included his best friend. Nobody should be surprised!!

 

[SugarDaddy1]

By quitting his job, he doesn't qualify for unemployment benefits. His company paid for (or highly subsized) health insurance becomes COBRA (he'll pay 100% of the premium). Failure to pay COBRA premiums will result in policy cancellation.

He'll lose his company paid for life insurance as well as his company paid for AD&D policy. He'll lose his company match 401(k) contributions, non-contributory profit sharing as well as his company paid, non-contributory defined benefit pension (save his vested portion).

Every potential employer will know he brings politics and division to the workplace. To that end, potential employers will pass.

 

[MonaLittle]

People still use Facebook?

I thought it was all about Instagram and Twitter these days.

 

[hobbit.]

People still use Facebook?

I thought it was all about Instagram and Twitter these days.

Carrier pigeons are the next big thing. secure passwords, triple encryption.

 

[cinnefille]

Is he truly racist?
Or just talks out of his ass, without any filter?
I mean, after listening to his "drink bleach" pandemic rhetoric...

In saying that, his comments DID inflame racist attitudes.