- Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) said that he would consider making changes to the policy that involved the company leaving up controversial posts published by President Donald Trump regarding the George Floyd protests
Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) recently said that he would consider making changes to the policy that involved the company leaving up controversial posts published by President Donald Trump regarding the George Floyd protests. Zuckerberg was heavily criticized by the media and a number of the company’s employees, many of whom resigned in response.
Zuckerberg has not made specific policy changes, but he revealed that the company is going to review policies allowing discussion and threats of state use of force and details around voter suppression. Plus the company will review potential options for handling violating or partially-violating content aside from the binary leave-it-up or take-it-down decisions.
“I know many of you think we should have labeled the President’s posts in some way last week. Our current policy is that if content is actually inciting violence, then the right mitigation is to take that content down — not let people continue seeing it behind a flag. There is no exception to this policy for politicians or newsworthiness. I think this policy is principled and reasonable, but I also respect a lot of the people who think there may be better alternatives, so I want to make sure we hear all those ideas. I started meeting with the team yesterday and we’re continuing the discussion soon. In general, I worry that this approach has a risk of leading us to editorialize on content we don’t like even if it doesn’t violate our policies, so I think we need to proceed very carefully,” wrote Zuckerberg in a Facebook post on June 5.
Here is the post that Zuckerberg wrote:
Going forward, Zuckerberg said Facebook will be more transparent about the decision-making on whether to take down posts.
Zuckerberg said that the decision to leave President Trump’s posts was “wrenching” for him and that they were “deeply offensive.” And Zuckerberg said that he would have to “separate out” his personal opinion to make the decision.
