Facebook Denies Bias After “How Do We Defeat Trump” Internal Memo Revealed
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
04/16/2016
Facebook is aggressively pushing back on the idea that it could (or would) tilt the scales in the presidential election against Donald Trump.
After CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly denounced the political positions of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign during the keynote speech of the company’s annual F8 developer conference…
“I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others,’” Zuckerberg said, never referring to Trump by name. “I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases, even for cutting access to the internet.”
For a developer’s conference, the comments were unprecedented – a signal that the 31-year-old billionaire is quite willing to publicly mix politics and business.
Gizmodo reports that inside Facebook, the political discussion has been more explicit. Last month, some Facebook employees used a company poll to ask Zuckerberg whether the company should try “to help prevent President Trump in 2017.” Every week, Facebook employees vote in an internal poll on what they want to ask Zuckerberg in an upcoming Q&A session. A question from the March 4 poll was: “What responsibility does Facebook have to help prevent President Trump in 2017?”
A screenshot of the poll, given to Gizmodo, shows the question as the fifth most popular.
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