Zuckerberg’s Trump Decision Sparks an Internal Facebook Rebellion
Inspired by nationwide protests, his employees demand a change in policy.
After Facebook decided not to take down the incendiary looting-and-shooting post by President Trump, its employees took to rival platform Twitter to voice displeasure with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. Alan Zeino, a software engineer who works at Facebook-owned Instagram, said he was “utterly ashamed.” Wesley Dickens, a data analyst, declared Facebook “on the wrong side of history.” Another software engineer, Dan Abramov, said his team was joining a virtual walkout “in solidarity with the black community.”
The outpouring of dissent was loud and unprecedented. Hundreds of employees participated in the walkout, which, since everyone was working from home, just meant telling their managers they were taking the day off. Even more changed their corporate profile pictures to all-black, or a black-and-white fist with a heart in it and the hashtag #takeaction.