Former Facebook employees slam Zuckerberg for not flagging Trump’s post

San Francisco: Several former influential Facebook employees have written an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, criticizing his inaction over controversial posts from US President Donald Trump on glorifying violence and calling him to start fact-checking world leaders and labeling harmful posts.

In the letter which was first reported by The New York Times, nearly three dozen top ex-staffers some of whom wrote Facebook’s first community guidelines said that the policy of allowing political speech to go largely unchecked was a “betrayal of the ideals Facebook claims,” asking Zuckerberg to reconsider his position.

The letter comes at a time when current Facebook employees have slammed Zuckerberg for not taking action on posts by Trump in the wake of the death of African-American George Floyd.