Facebook worker unrest rises with walkout, criticism of CEO

Several senior figures at Facebook declared their strong disagreement with Zuckerberg online over the weekend, and some employees – working from home because of the pandemic – held a virtual walkout, deciding not to log in to work on Monday in protest. — AP

Facebook Inc employees became increasingly bold in expressing their dismay at chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to take action on incendiary comments posted to the social network by US President Donald Trump, tweeting out criticisms and staging a virtual walkout.

After the president tweeted a message with the words “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” in response to protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Twitter Inc for the first time obscured one of his posts, marking it with a warning that it breached service rules by glorifying violence. Facebook’s response to the same content, in a post from Zuckerberg on Friday, was to say, “We think people need to know if the government is planning to deploy force.”