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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/02/zuckerberg-trump-facebook-297374

Zuckerberg rejects employee calls to act on Trump posts

2020-06-02 00:00:00, , POLITICO

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/News/Politics
/Online Communities/Social Networks
/Business & Industrial

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586

Words/Sentence:
33

Reading Time:
5.86 min

Reading Quality:
Advanced

Readability:
16th or higher

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The 36-year-old executive has come under unprecedented scrutiny from his own workforce, including the company's mainstay engineers, scores of whom organized a virtual walkout Monday and took to social media with uncharacteristically public criticism.

Zuckerberg is "grateful" for employee feedback, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said in a statement, noting "open and honest discussion has always been a part of Facebook's culture."

The Facebook chief's continued defense of his decision despite growing censure illustrates his increased willingness to stand behind a politically divisive, and for some, unpopular opinion regardless of the fallout.

Originally scheduled for Thursday, the call was moved to earlier in the week in response to a swell of employee unrest.

Zuckerberg has taken an increasingly hard-line approach to free speech online in recent months, saying he believes social media sites should put relatively few filters on speech, particularly when political leaders are doing the talking.

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