People on twitter at other $bigtech seem more than happy to bring you all on board but you've been sucking that $270k+ top-end-even-for-FAANG salary with no concern for the ethics or morality of your business for years. This isn't new. I'm less than excited to see Facebook show up on a resume and haven't been for years. Not to mention the people I've interviewed from there seem to get so accustomed to working on Facebook internal tools that aren't in use anywhere else, especially you front end devs (not talking about just react here but the internal ecosystem).

Best of luck to those of you looking to leave. It took THIS much to get you to this point, don't forget that.

There are a LOT of devs not from Facebook that deserve to be hired and given chances in other FAANG businesses. People you actually want to work with who won't contribute to attacks on democracy for a high salary while the rest of us refuse to even response to Facebook recruiters for the last 3-10 years.

Hire them instead. Especially you Google employees who are on twitter ranting and raving right now. There are a huge amount of people who want to work with you who haven't traded their ethics for a paycheck.

This is part of the circle of life for internal Facebook turmoil:

1. Facebook does something to draw ire

2. Employee drama

3. The company leadership offers some platitudes to buy time

4. GOTO 1

People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not? Is this for real?

We really need mainstream decentralized applications more than ever. Thoughts of people should not be censored. Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you?

This is just ridiculous. I don't like Facebook but great decision by Mark. Same as they decided to not remove political ads.

As if anything is going to change. He has the voting rights to do whatever.

There are few FB employees that did speak out on Twitter with not agreeing but to what end. They will still continue to work in support of all this.

I don't think it's such a big problem though, if you dislike hate and violence just mute these people from your feeds/life. The bigger issue as I see it is FB working directly in support of Trump by supporting his ads and dropping Biden's ads.

The tweets are nice, but little will change until people at the executive level bow out publicly.

Facebook employees are not adequately representative of the population as a whole. They lean overwhelmingly left and as such I would take their "blowback" with a grain of salt.

Maybe, the government should get involved in monopolistic Big Tech. Isn't that what HN users are always wanting?

I'm sure the Trump administration will get right on that.

Just like now that the President is pressuring Twitter, HN users are up in arms. Be careful what you ask for.....

“Mark is wrong, and I will endeavor in the loudest possible way to change his mind,” wrote Ryan Freitas, whose Twitter account identifies him as director of product design for Facebook’s News Feed. He added he had mobilized “50+ likeminded folks” to lobby for internal change.

Jason Toff, identified as director of product management, wrote: “I work at Facebook and I am not proud of how we’re showing up. The majority of coworkers I’ve spoken to feel the same way. We are making our voice heard.”

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"endeavor in the loudest possible way"?

"not proud of how we're showing up"?

If "the majority of coworkers" and "50+ likeminded folks" are so passionate about it... stop working for the company. Quit, make a fucking sacrifice and stop thinking that somehow you're going to change Zuck's mind.

Money is a hell of a drug.