Facebook Employees Ask Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try To Stop a Donald Trump Presidency (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Mark Zuckerberg didn't shy from condemning several of Trump's views at his company's developer conference earlier this week. Things are getting tenser now. Gizmodo's Michael Nunez is reporting about a political discussion inside Facebook wherein employees appear to be asking 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?"An excerpt from the report which talks about Facebook's position :But what's exceedingly important about this question being raised -- and Zuckerberg's answer, if there is one -- is how Facebook now treats the powerful place it holds in the world. It's unprecedented. More than 1.04 billion people use Facebook. It's where we get our news, share our political views, and interact with politicians. It's also where those politicians are spending a greater share of their budgets. And Facebook has no legal responsibility to give an unfiltered view of what's happening on their network.

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facebook should stay out of it

[servo335]

Facebook is just a forum they should stay neutral and let the Democratic process work. While people may not agree with Trump it doesn't mean stop him from running for president. After all we are the same population whop allowed 2 terms for "W"

Re:facebook should stay out of it

[geekmux]

Facebook is just a forum they should stay neutral and let the Democratic process work.

This. All damn day long.

And touting that Facebook has a billion users so they should have a say is akin to asking China or India to help out with the US election. Pure numbers mean fuck-all with this, and it rather disgusts me that employees of a social media system assume they hold any responsibility to "prevent" (read: manipulate) the election of one of the most powerful positions on this planet.

TL;DR - Know your fucking place, Facebook.

Re:Non-Issue

[merky1]

Don't confuse elitist CA politics with a consensus view.

Re:Non-Issue

[ArmoredDragon]

without any ideological consistency.

I think that's a good thing. Or rather, it would be nice if policy decisions were made based on technical merit rather than passing some ideological test.