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Meta/Facebook employees are being reminded of a policy not to discuss abortion on companywide channels on Friday. Managers are being told the company to be empathetic to distressed employees but to remain neutral.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 days ago

This goes far beyond tech companies. Auto companies (who track location data) and telecoms come to mind.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 days ago

American society puts a lot of stake in what its business leaders say during big political or cultural moments. Given that, here's what Mark Zuckerberg posted today.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 days ago

Here's some political stances he's taken in the past as told by his profile photos

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 days ago

Also worth noting that the country's two richest people, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have said nothing publicly either. They've been outspoken on other political topics in the past.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 days ago

In some cases, internal moderators are removing posts and messages about abortion. One employee wrote on LinkedIn that the company is allowing groups of up to 20 employees to have "limited discussion" about the topic as long as it follows "a set playbook."

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 days ago

It's been almost four years since Facebook VP Joel Kaplan sat behind his friend Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation hearing. Interesting to draw a line from that moment to where Facebook/Meta is now on employees expressing political views.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 days ago

told by* the company

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 15 hours ago

It comes for all

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Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 7 days ago

My favorite corporate Juneteenth moment is when Elon Musk told Tesla and SpaceX workers that Juneteenth was considered a US holiday, then later clarified that employees who wanted to observe it would have to take a paid time off day.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 month ago

Musk is talking about "his obsession with truth" on stage right now. Four years ago, he tried to get me to write that a British cave rescuer in Thailand was a "child rapist" because of false information fed to him by a fake private investigator.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 5 years ago

Google cofounder Sergey Brin at SFO protest: "I'm here because I'm a refugee." (Photo from Matt Kang/Forbes)

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 2 years ago

This is Grimes' mom. Thanksgiving is going to be fun.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 1 years ago

As protestors stormed the Capitol, Facebook employees took to their internal workplace message board to express their fears and ask that Trump be removed from the platform. In response, management shut down threads and prevented them from commenting.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 4 month ago

The Coinbase CEO wrote a long thread discussing how their super bowl commercial came about and suggesting there are lessons in being non-traditional and not listening to ad agencies. But then he gets called out lol.

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 4 years ago

lmao... the White House/Melania Trump Be Best pamphlet about your kids being online is almost the exact same thing that the FTC published in Jan. 2014: 2014: 2018:

Ryan Mac ?@RMac18 1 years ago

Facebook employees are furious and unloaded on Mark Zuckerberg during an all-hands meeting yesterday over his handling of QAnon and a Kenosha militia page that remained online after a shooting that killed two people. Here's my dispatch from inside:

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