{"id":25853,"date":"2020-06-10T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25853"},"modified":"2020-06-10T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T22:59:07","slug":"zuckerberg-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25853","title":{"rendered":"ZUCKERBERG UNDER PRESSURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic members of the House Homeland Security committee sent a letter to <a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/twljsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrpwvvhz_ddgtcchphftcjtspsjhr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/twljsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrpwvvhz_ddgtcchphftcjtspsjhr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591915945088000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHwMjy01Rk9PElBAmsUH4Zgk21OUQ\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday urging him to take action against\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kthfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqptvvmm_ddgtcchphftcjtspsjhr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kthfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqptvvmm_ddgtcchphftcjtspsjhr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591915945088000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEl03LAdr1_ykZkrjE96yYPDieO3A\">President Trump<\/a>&#8216;s Facebook posts.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers pointed to posts in the last few weeks where the president suggested without evidence that &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; co-host\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mwysmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvpwnnyt_ddgtcchphftcjtspsjhr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mwysmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvpwnnyt_ddgtcchphftcjtspsjhr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591915945088000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOYOeZc4WKjw7CtXzUTUG3el1VFQ\">Joe Scarborough<\/a>\u00a0was involved in the death of one of his former congressional staffers and one where he said &#8220;when the looting starts, the shooting starts&#8221; about anti-police brutality protests following the killing of George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg has been under intense internal and external pressure on the second post, which the Facebook CEO chose to leave untouched, despite it soliciting responses from Twitter and Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook employees have staged digital walk outs in protest, and civil rights leaders have criticized Zuckerberg&#8217;s unwillingness to budge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]n recent weeks, you have had the opportunity to receive informed, experienced advice of civil rights leaders and had the ear of the President, but you have failed to take responsibility to use your privilege to stand up for the people the President targets with his violent rhetoric,\u201d the Democratic lawmakers, led by Homeland Security Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ktrfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqptvvmv_ddgtcchphftcjtspsjhr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ktrfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqptvvmv_ddgtcchphftcjtspsjhr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1591915945088000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH3tzDG7YwHtEr58A1_BPs--CkTTg\">Bennie Thompson<\/a>\u00a0(D-Miss.), wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic members of the House&#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-25853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853","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=25853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25854,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25853\/revisions\/25854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}