Deeply shaken, disgusted: Zuckerberg, Chan on Trump’s ‘divisive rhetoric’

In their first direct criticism of US President Donald Trump over his controversial posts, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan said they were deeply shaken by his divisive rhetoric at a time when people around the world were protesting against the death of African-American George Floyd.

Replying to over 270 scientists funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative who urged them to curb misinformation and hateful posts like the one from Trump on glorifying violence on his platforms, the couple said this is an extraordinary painful inflection time in their nation’s history and they take their concerns seriously and to heart.

“We are deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump’s divisive and incendiary rhetoric at a time when our nation so desperately needs unity,” Zuckerberg and Chen wrote in the letter that was shared on Twitter.