<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>coldcode</author><text>Nothing remarkable in a company that makes lawnmowers.&lt;p&gt;Facebook is a company that uses its power to change what people think because so many view it as a source of truth. Doing it for money, or doing it for power, is essentially the same thing. If you are in position to manipulate the truth for benefits to you or your friends in high places you will, and he is.&lt;p&gt;If I worked at Facebook and felt the CEO was twisting truth for money, I&amp;#x27;d leave, but the bribe to work there is so high.&lt;p&gt;If Zuckerberg truly was not a dictator wannabe, he&amp;#x27;d give up voting control of the company, but of course he won&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>