<story><title>Mark in the Middle</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>Although a follow up would be the comforting level of maturity in Facebook&amp;#x27;s leadership, acknowledging that it isn&amp;#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.&lt;p&gt;It is distressingly refreshing to see a company in the news for taking a stance like &amp;quot;In my work with Joel, I’ve found him to be ... very rigorous and principled in his thinking [and therefore I&amp;#x27;m happy to work with him despite being a Republican]&amp;quot;. It really is remarkable that Zuckerberg is in a position to have to defend that. From company employees of all people.</text></item><item><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;The community we serve tends to be, on average, ideologically a little bit more conservative than our employee base.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If I had to pick one sentence of the article which sums up the entire issue it would be this one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nemothekid</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;acknowledging that it isn&amp;#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is very hard for me to square with Facebook. It&amp;#x27;s like working at the NY Times and saying &amp;quot;no politics in the work place.&amp;quot; Almost any decision FB makes is by definition political. The top 10 most interacted pages on Facebook are political. COVID-19, in the US, is political.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t strike me as mature, it&amp;#x27;s deceitful. It&amp;#x27;s very easy to claim things are non-political when the outcomes do not affect you at all.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mark in the Middle</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/21444203/facebook-leaked-audio-zuckerberg-trump-pandemic-blm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>roenxi</author><text>Although a follow up would be the comforting level of maturity in Facebook&amp;#x27;s leadership, acknowledging that it isn&amp;#x27;t their role to bring politics into the workplace.&lt;p&gt;It is distressingly refreshing to see a company in the news for taking a stance like &amp;quot;In my work with Joel, I’ve found him to be ... very rigorous and principled in his thinking [and therefore I&amp;#x27;m happy to work with him despite being a Republican]&amp;quot;. It really is remarkable that Zuckerberg is in a position to have to defend that. From company employees of all people.</text></item><item><author>jsiepkes</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;The community we serve tends to be, on average, ideologically a little bit more conservative than our employee base.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If I had to pick one sentence of the article which sums up the entire issue it would be this one.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattacular</author><text>Whenever someone says &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t bring politics into X&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;s a cop-out. Doubly so for anything related to Facebook. Politics is how we solve all problems between competing interests as a society. You can&amp;#x27;t operate a business in this country (or any) which is divorced from politics. It&amp;#x27;s absurd for Zuck to suggest that his business should be immune to political forces.</text></comment>