ZuCkerberg stopped removal of trump hate speeCh

NEW YORK: While some Facebook employees tried to remove certain controversial posts by US presidential candidate Donand Trump from the website, CEO Mark Zuckerberg ruled that it would be inappropriate to censor the Republican Party nominee, media reported on Saturday. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Zuckerberg’s decision prompted employees across the board to complain on Facebook’s internal messaging service and to Zuckerberg and other managers that it was bending the site’s rules for Trump who posted about banning Muslims from entering the US. “Some employees who work in a group charged with reviewing content on Facebook even threatened to quit,” the report added. Trump posted in December “on preventing Muslim immigration”. His statement called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. Users flagged the content as hate speech — a move that triggered a review by Fb’s communityoperations team.