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Facebook boss Zuckerberg heard the displeasure of his employees, but did not answer them. He stays with it: No post from US President Trump is deleted. In the end, that could weaken his company.
By Marcus Schuler, ARD Studio Los Angeles
Mark Zuckerberg sticks to his decision: The publications of US President Donald Trump on Facebook are not touched, they remain in the original. Zuckerberg made this clear again at a video conference with Facebook employees yesterday afternoon.
"Zuckerberg is very stubborn. I said before that he won't deviate from this position, and that's how it happened. He said the same things he said last Friday. That is why he made the entries doesn't delete and why they don't violate Facebook guidelines, "says Stephen Levy.
He published a book on Facebook just a few months ago. The well-respected journalist for the tech magazine "Wired" in San Francisco says that Zuckerberg doesn't have to answer anyone: "He controls Facebook. He can overrule the supervisory board because he owns the most shares in the company. He has always been in the history of the group over the decision of employees. In the specific case, he is concerned with extending freedom of expression as far as the rules of Facebook dictate. At least that's how he put it in his engineering mind and he wants to work with the Republicans don't get in trouble. "
So while competitor Twitter provides evidence of incorrect or violent entries with a reference or even hides them - Trump is free to say what he wants on Facebook.
For many employees, this has caused the barrel to overflow in the past few days. They publicly revolted against their almighty boss and stopped working on Monday. Several even quit their jobs. There was probably a small demonstration near the Zuckerberg Villa in Palo Alto.
Levy says that the fact that some Facebook employees have now quit shouldn't matter so much to the company: "It may be more difficult that good people no longer want to work on Facebook. The company has to worry because it could change the position of the network weaken in the social networking and advertising business over the long term. "
Facebook has not only felt like it has been sliding to the right for months. In the background, Joe Kaplan pulls the strings, a conservative who has been Facebook's chief lobbyist for almost ten years in the office in the U.S. capital. He was already in the service of ex-President Georg Bush and is a close friend of the controversial constitutional judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Levy says Zuckerberg listens to Kaplan: "Kaplan prefers the Republican Party so much that Facebook people in the Washington office have told me that he works more for the Republican Party than for Facebook. He sees it as his job to work for the Republicans . "
Trump did one thing: He isolated Facebook from the other two major social networks Twitter and Google with his video platform YouTube. Only one platform is important for the upcoming election campaign: Facebook.
