{"id":93397,"date":"2020-10-20T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebook-workers-ashamed-by-tech-giants-censorship-of-posts-reporting\/"},"modified":"2020-10-20T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:00:15","slug":"facebook-workers-ashamed-by-tech-giants-censorship-of-posts-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebook-workers-ashamed-by-tech-giants-censorship-of-posts-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook workers \u2018ashamed\u2019 by tech giant\u2019s censorship of Post\u2019s reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> workers \u2018ashamed\u2019 by tech giant\u2019s censorship of Post\u2019s reporting<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        \u201cFacebook is almost an arm of the Democratic Party \u2014 an arm of the far-left wing of the Democratic Party.\u201d So said the former Facebook insider as we sat down for an interview at a Midtown restaurant Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A gloomy rain had left the joint deserted, yet the man across the table from me spoke in hushed tones and looked over his shoulder in between remarks for fear of retaliation. Yet he felt he had to speak out, because staffers are \u201cintentionally trying to swing people further to the left,\u201d as he had put it in an e-mail requesting the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I already knew that, of course. It was a Facebook communications manager, Andy Stone, who on Thursday announced the firm was reducing circulation of The Post\u2019s still-undisputed reporting on the Hunter Files \u2014 an employee who h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to work for Democratic lawmakers before joining the tech giant. What the Facebook insider wanted to impress upon me, however, was how Facebook\u2019s partisan tilt is common knowledge inside the firm.<\/p>\n<p>He had the secret chats to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook employees who wish to speak freely take to Blind, an anonymous social network for the tech industry, where workers at major firms like Uber, Google, Twitter and the like trade gossip and occasionally blow the whistle on malfeasance.<\/p>\n<p><!--If the slideshow is embedded in another post type add the inline wrapper --><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\">\n<p><!--Begin Slideshow--><\/p>\n<div id=\"slideshow-16478960-1\" class=\"slideshow-container \">\n<p>    <!--Slides Container--><\/p>\n<div class=\"slides-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"slide\">\n<div class=\"slide-image\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=527 527w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=379 379w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=335 335w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=297 297w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=222 222w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=166 166w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=312 312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" alt=\"facebook1\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\"\/><\/div>\n<p>                <noscript><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"facebook1\"\/><\/noscript>\n                                            <\/div>\n<div class=\"slide\">\n<div class=\"slide-image\">\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=518 518w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=372 372w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=329 329w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=291 291w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=218 218w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=163 163w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=307 307w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" alt=\"facebook2\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\"\/><\/div>\n<p>                <noscript><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/facebook2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"facebook2\"\/><\/noscript>\n                                            <\/div>\n<p>        <!--Mobile slide controls--><\/p>\n<div class=\"next-slideshow-expander\">\n<div class=\"next-slideshow-wrapper no-image\">\n                Up Next<br \/>\n                <button class=\"close-button\"><span class=\"close-button-text\">Close<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<article class=\"story-photo-box next-slideshow oversize-headline\"><!-- NYPost and PageSix custom flag area--><\/p>\n<p>            <!-- End custom flag area --><\/p>\n<p>                President Trump on Monday said that Hunter Biden\u2019s \u201claptop from&#8230;<br \/>\n                    <\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>        <!--Slideshow Ad Wrapper--><\/p>\n<p>        <!--\/Slideshow Ad Wrapper--><\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <!--\/Slides Container--><\/p>\n<p>    <!--Slideshow Header--><br \/>\n    <!--\/Slideshow Header--><\/div>\n<p><!--Close inline slideshow wrapper-->\n    <\/div>\n<p>To gain access to the Facebook network on Blind, a user must sign up using his or her Facebook work e-mail address. The posters, in other words, are verified Facebook employees (and ex-employees in a few cases).<\/p>\n<p>So what do Facebook workers think about the company\u2019s handling of our story? The comments speak for themselves:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Facebook] employees want Trump to lose,\u201d wrote one user. \u201cIf that means rigging [the platform] against him, they don\u2019t care.\u201d The post garnered 29 \u201clikes\u201d from other employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked that Facebook did this,\u201d said another. \u201cWe kinda called [brought] this on ourselves. So much for \u2018we are not the arbiters of truth.\u2019 \u201d That comment garnered 15 \u201clikes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still other comments: \u201cFacebook bets that Biden wins the election. So an effort to jump on the bandwagon.\u201d \u201cYeah this one is unconscionable. I\u2019m ashamed.\u201d \u201cImagine if we censored some leaked Trump stuff. It would be the #1 upvoted question tomorrow for Mark [Zuckerberg company-wide]\u2019s Q&amp;A.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another employee wrote a detailed critique: \u201cWhy do people hate Facebook everywhere? Here\u2019s one reason. Freaking one-sided decision. The comms Twitter account [Andy Stone\u2019s] was definitely left-leaning, and it\u2019s a talking point, as well. No proper response to comms feedback. Don\u2019t want to be the what-if person. But we didn\u2019t have problems circulating leaked Trump tax or any other s\u2013t surrounding Trump or COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Trump loses his supporters won\u2019t totally blame the obvious censorship that is happening right now,\u201d wrote one sarcastic employee. \u201cIf Biden wins, all those questions will go away? Hell no. In fact, he is better off losing, if he doesn\u2019t want more scrutiny into his son\u2019s ill-gotten gains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still another employee predicted starkly: \u201cWe\u2019re now begging to be regulated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook didn\u2019t reply to my request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>So could these voices of reason prevail inside the company? The Facebook insider, who shared the Blind comments with me, was pessimistic. \u201cThe whole thing,\u201d he said, \u201cis run by super-woke millennials and gen-Xers. This overwhelming majority of people make sure there\u2019s no chance of breaking through the ideological barrier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a Facebook employee, the insider told me, \u201cif you\u2019re left-wing, you can say what you want. But if you\u2019re conservative \u2014 or even just apolitical \u2014 you have to go on this anonymous app\u201d to speak your mind.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sohrab Ahmari is The Post\u2019s op-ed editor. This is the first of a multi-part investigation into Facebook. 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