Facebook moderators back Black Lives Matter and slam company ‘for not letting them join walkout’ against Zuckerberg
FACEBOOK moderators who support the Black Lives Matter movement have slammed the company for not letting them join an anti-Mark Zuckerberg walkout.
The moderators wrote an open letter to their coworkers, which was published online on Monday, in support of the walkouts at .
“We are, first and foremost, standing in solidarity with the Black community that is currently mourning the tragic and senseless death of George Floyd, as well as countless others before him, and fighting for the right to live free from systemic exploitation, police brutality, and racism,” the letter read.
The mods also expressed their solidarity with Facebook workers “organizing the virtual walkout and protesting against a lack of adequate action from Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook leadership, after president Donald Trump posted a message threatening and inciting violence against demonstrators.”
“We know how important Facebook’s policies are because it’s our job to enforce them,” they wrote.
On Friday, Zuckerberg said in a post that he would 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,” he wrote.
“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.”
After the death of George Floyd on May 25, Trump