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Facebook employees are worried about whether Trump would use the social network to invalidate the results of the 2020 presidential election. They want Zuckerberg to answer their question about it at today's all-hands meeting which is happening right now. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
Our story also outlines employee concerns that the co is giving preferential treatment to right-wing pages and publishers. In some cases, employees on internal forums said that Facebook's policy team got involved to reduce fact-check penalties. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-zuckerberg-what-if-trump-disputes-election-results
Some examples. A FB employee found Joel Kaplan, the co's VP of public policy, personally flagged a fact check of a Charlie Kirk Instagram post for resolution.
In another case, a partner manager for PragerU argued the page should not be factchecked because it ran a lot of ads.
In another case, a partner manager for PragerU argued the page should not be factchecked because it ran a lot of ads.
Zuckerberg is currently talking at the all-hands meeting right now about leaks.
"Part of that culture means we need to take a pretty heavy hand when people violate that trust," he says, threatening to fire leakers. He said someone was already fired for leaking this week.
"Part of that culture means we need to take a pretty heavy hand when people violate that trust," he says, threatening to fire leakers. He said someone was already fired for leaking this week.
Zuckerberg just tried to address the question from FB employees on if the company has a plan in place if Trump uses the platform to invalidate election results.
He said the co has been thinking about it and that they're in an "unprecedented position."
He said the co has been thinking about it and that they're in an "unprecedented position."
Zuckerberg says he doesn't think there will be a result by the end of election night because of the volume of votes via vote-by-mail. He says they have a responsibility to maintain election integrity between when votes are cast and when election results are announced.
He still didn't quite address the question. Employees wanted to specifically know what would happen if Trump declared on Facebook that the election results were invalid. That was not specifically or totally addressed.
