{"id":25634,"date":"2020-06-03T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25634"},"modified":"2020-06-03T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:32:31","slug":"zuckerberg-in-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25634","title":{"rendered":"ZUCKERBERG IN HOT WATER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of former Facebook employees sent a letter to <a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/svvlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshlppbrs_nkrqddfyfnqdkqyywdfk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/svvlwzjfpbbtgzgbtcmpptllpjthbjbddkpfzshlppbrs_nkrqddfyfnqdkqyywdfk.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591307604433000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGUcIAtZrVZHs_DF_f-7NjhSa2vhw\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday criticizing him over a decision to leave controversial posts by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nftjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmjkkqyj_nkrqddfyfnqdkqyywdfk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/nftjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmjkkqyj_nkrqddfyfnqdkqyywdfk.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591307604433000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHDLtzclMeiVUBj0581-rx6GtjPag\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0untouched.<\/p>\n<p>The 34 employees said in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vphmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzmyyfvy_nkrqddfyfnqdkqyywdfk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vphmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzmyyfvy_nkrqddfyfnqdkqyywdfk.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591307604433000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF3kxjYLaClnaXQ3PVNE7wxFVi6_w\">letter published in The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0that leaving the posts in which Trump said &#8220;when the looting starts, the shooting starts&#8221; is a &#8220;betrayal&#8221; of the social media platform&#8217;s ideals.<\/p>\n<p>The post was in reference to protests in Minnesota sparked by the death of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ccjqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzqmmtph_nkrqddfyfnqdkqyywdfk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ccjqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzqmmtph_nkrqddfyfnqdkqyywdfk.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591307604433000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHSJNwFAr7cFE9r3e2n9qE0aIw5EA\">George Floyd<\/a>\u00a0in Minneapolis police custody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Facebook] claims that providing warnings about a politician\u2019s speech is inappropriate, but removing content from citizens is acceptable, even if both are saying the same thing,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is not a noble stand for freedom. It is incoherent, and worse, it is cowardly. Facebook should be holding politicians to a higher standard than their constituents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg and Facebook&#8217;s leadership have been under intense criticism\u00a0over the decision to leave the post up, including from inside the company.<\/p>\n<p>Several current employees have spoken up about the posts, and on Monday several held a digital protest.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg has defended the decision, saying that Facebook is not an &#8220;arbiter of truth.&#8221; Current and former employees disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of former Facebook employees sent&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25635,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions\/25635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}