Facebook’s employee revolt

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Over 400 Facebook employees didn't show up to work on Monday. Recode's Shirin Ghaffary explains the unprecedented unrest at the social media giant over President Trump’s posts. Featuring Shirin Ghaffary (@ShirinGhaffary) Jeff Horwitz (@JeffHorwitz) Links to resources discussed: Many Facebook employees think the company needs to stand up to Trump now more than ever Read the transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s tense meeting with Facebook employees Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.3	executive order and Twitter's decision to fact check and even label his tweets. The content of those tweets was also
0:55.6	posted on Facebook. So what's been happening over at Facebook? So there's been
1:00.2	a brewing internal debate at Facebook amongst its employees about if they should
1:04.6	start doing some of the same things as Twitter. Employees are angry and
1:10.8	frustrated with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's handling of some of President Trump's
1:15.4	posts that many people claim incited violence.
1:18.6	You know, I think employees, a lot of them for the first time, they're becoming really actively
1:22.0	engaged in you
1:23.2	know national conversation about racial justice in this country and much like
1:26.4	everyone else this is the first time for some people these issues are truly
1:30.3	top of mind for them many of them are angry and we're seeing kind of an
1:34.6	employee uprising like we've never seen before at Facebook. Facebook's actions or
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