Posted on 05/31/2020 12:10:51 AM PDT by knighthawk
Some workers at Facebook are unhappy with the social media giant's decision to not take any action on controversial posts by President Donald Trump, despite having been flagged on Twitter.
Some of the employees are calling on Facebook executives to reconsider the decision to keep up Trump''s controversial posts about mail-in ballots and the Minnesota protests.
'I have to say I am finding the contortions we have to go through incredibly hard to stomach,' one employee was quoted in an email as reported by The Verge.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The tweet did not constitute a threat.
The Left doesn’t care about the violence in the streets their shock troops are carrying out this week. Roving lynch mobs killing and injuring random citizens.
Just goes to show you Zuck is just a deep state figure head and not much more.
[Just goes to show you Zuck is just a deep state figure head and not much more.]
And when I say he has 60%, I mean he personally owns, not he has people who vote with him.
Zuck isn’t a fool - he likes his exemption.
Once first violation of first amendment happened it eroded everyone’s inhibition to censorship.. Tomorrow it will be them negatively affected
“The tweet did not constitute a threat.”
More like fair warning.
The left is fomenting violence in the streets and is going to reap what they have sown 100-fold!
This will go into effect when the NG arrives. They don't mess around.
first Zuckerberg is a free speech advocate cos of something he said to Dana Perino...and now he’s being lauded for the same thing over The President’s tweet! strange times.
behind paywall:
6 May: UK Telegraph: Facebook will rue its left-wing oversight board appointments
By Robin Pagnamenta
The board has been filled with people like the former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger who conform to Facebook’s liberal world view...
Here, ensconced in the liberal bubble in which the 35-year-old billionaire exists and surrounded by a coterie of advisers led by Sir Nick Clegg (FORMER LEADER, LIBERAL DEMOCRAT UK, Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications since 2018), Facebook’s decision to appoint Alan Rusbridger to its oversight board must have seemed like a smart move...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/06/facebook-will-rue-left-wing-oversight-board-appointments/
7 May: Guardian: Journalists, politicians and judges to sit on Facebook’s free speech panel
New independent board, which includes ex-Guardian editor, will rule on freedom of expression issues
by Alex Hern
Among the 20 board members who have agreed to help set policy for the social network are Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former prime minister of Denmark; the Nobel peace laureate Tawakkol Karman; and Alan Rusbridger, the former Guardian editor-in-chief.
The first four members of the board, who all hold the title of co-chair, were selected by Facebook directly. Thorning-Schmidt is one, and is joined by two US law professors, Jamal Greene and Michael McConnell, and Catalina Botero Marino, a former special rapporteur for freedom of expression at the Organization of American States.
Those four, in combination with Facebook, selected the next 16 members and will continue to appoint board members until the board hits its full complement of 40...
“Our roster includes three former judges, six former or current journalists, and other leaders with backgrounds from civil society, academia and public service,” said Thomas Hughes, the director of the oversight board. “They represent a diverse collection of backgrounds and beliefs, but all have a deep commitment to advancing human rights and freedom of expression.”...
Thorning-Schmidt, who served as CEO of Save the Children after leaving office and is married to the Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, said she “looked forward to the challenge” that the board’s work would bring...
Rusbridger, who was editor-in-chief of the Guardian from 1995 until 2015, said. “The oversight board seems to be the first imaginative and bold step by one of the biggest players to find a way of reconciling the need to start imposing some kind of judgment and standards on what is published, while still maintaining the things that are wonderful about social media, and necessary for free speech. I’m impressed by the group of people that has been chosen and the processes that have been put in place.”...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/06/facebook-oversight-board-freedom-expression-helle-thorning-schmidt-alan-rusbridger
6 May: Medium.com: Why I’m Joining Facebook’s Oversight Board
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger on why the social media giant ‘needs independent, external oversight’
by Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger was the editor in chief of The Guardian between 1995–2015. He is Principal of Lady Margaret Hall; Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism; and the author of Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now.
Almost exactly a year ago, back in the days when near strangers could strike up random conversations in Italian bars, I found myself learning about a new initiative on which Facebook was embarking — a kind of independent Supreme Court to help the company rule on the deluge of moral, ethical, editorial, and legal challenges it was facing.
We were in Perugia, the medieval hilltop Umbrian city where each year hundreds of journalists, technologists, and academics gather (or did, until Covid temporarily silenced those conversations) to talk all day — and sometimes much of the night — about the issues ***we all had in common...
In the bar of the Brufani Hotel late one evening, I asked lots of questions about this Facebook Oversight Board, an idea Mark Zuckerberg had announced the previous November. It seemed a promising move by a company which was exasperating and alienating so many people by its apparent unwillingness, or inability, to get grips with the torrent of lousy, malign content it was enabling and amplifying...
The global Covid-19 crisis we’re currently living through exemplifies the mortal dangers of a world of information chaos. Societies and communities can’t function unless there is some consensus around facts and truth. And the coronavirus is, in some ways, merely a dress rehearsal for the even greater challenges of ***climate change...
https://onezero.medium.com/why-im-joining-facebook-s-oversight-committee-f5b0c30f2d14
Wasn’t “Save the Children” involved in some nasty scandal years back?
In Ethiopia in the 80s money and equipment like trucks from ‘Save the Children’ and other NGOs was used by the regime to forcibly resettle people from the north to festering camps in the south where they were ‘socially transformed.’ Many tens of thousands died on the way.
ping
Isn’t the Guardian owned in part by Iranian/Frenchman/UScit Pierre Omidyar?
Well, the malcontents can always quit their job
Well, the malcontents can always quit their job
Well, the malcontents can always quit their job
I wonder how many of these Facebook employees are Antifa.
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