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🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastards. Hope you've been a fantastic Tuesday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco |
0:04.7 | show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're going to talk about today is this |
0:08.0 | interesting and massive news around Facebook and really just truth. And if you've missed some |
0:12.6 | recent shows, you know, we've talked about Facebook on the show recently, specifically about its |
0:16.0 | recent decision to not remove posts made by politicians that violated the platform's rules, |
0:19.9 | even if those posts contain false information. |
0:22.3 | And you know, following that, |
0:23.3 | a lot of people criticize that move, |
0:24.7 | saying that the company was basically allowing politicians |
0:26.8 | to just lie on Facebook. |
0:28.2 | And the reason we're talking about this once again today |
0:30.2 | is because those criticisms are now hitting |
0:31.9 | exceptionally close to home for Facebook. |
0:33.8 | Yesterday, the New York Times reported |
0:35.0 | that Facebook employees had written a letter |
0:36.5 | to Mark Zuckerberg and other top executives calling on them to change the policy. According to the |
0:40.5 | Times, the letter was posted on Facebook Workplace, which is the company's internal communication |
0:44.1 | board for employees and has been there for two weeks now. And according to multiple sources, |
0:48.0 | as of Monday, more than 250 employees had signed the message. And in this letter, the employees |
0:51.8 | say that Facebook is a place of free expression, but that |
0:55.0 | they are worried that the policy would undo all the work that they've done since the 2016 |
0:58.3 | election to fight misinformation. |
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