Fox News has the story, with this headline: Zuckerberg defiant in tense session with employees over Trump posts, report says
The story says:
“Despite public rebukes from several of his employees, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg resisted calls to label posts from President Trump with a warning sign in a similar manner to what Twitter did last month, according to media reports.
In a question-and-answer session with employees on Tuesday, Zuckerberg said the decision to leave up Trump’s post where the president wrote “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” was “the right action for where we are right now,” according to leaked audio obtained by Recode.
“We basically concluded after the research and after everything I’ve read and all the different folks that I’ve talked to that the reference is clearly to aggressive policing — maybe excessive policing — but it has no history of being read as a dog whistle for vigilante supporters to take justice into their own hands,” Recode reported Zuckerberg said on the call, noting Facebook can still moderate Trump if it deems necessary.”
The story also says this of two Facebook employees:
“Facebook engineer Brandon Dail tweeted on Tuesday that ‘it’s crystal clear today that leadership refuses to stand with us,’ referencing the lack of action by the company on Trump’s posts.”
“Facebook software engineer Timothy Aveni said publicly on Monday that he was resigning as a result of the lack of action taken by Zuckerberg and the rest of the Facebook leadership.”
So let’s translate.
Facebook engineer Brandon Dail and now-resigned Facebook software engineer Timothy Aveni are Trump haters. They are leftists. As the evidence flies in their face that yes, in fact, the President was exactly right that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” they seek to deny reality.
One has to ask. Have Dail and Aveni and their fellow Trump-haters at Facebook now heard of David Dorn? They should have. Here’s the headline from The St. Louis Post Dispatch:
Retired police captain shot to death at St. Louis pawn shop in slaying caught on Facebook Live
Reports the paper:
“ST. LOUIS — A retired St. Louis police captain and municipal chief was shot to death by looters at a St. Louis pawn shop early Tuesday, and his killing apparently was broadcast on Facebook Live.
David Dorn, 77, was shot in the torso about 2:30 a.m. He died on the sidewalk in front of the shop, Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry, at 4123 Martin Luther King Drive.”
And oh, by the way? Captain Dorn was an African-American.
In response to the broadcast of the Dorn killing on Facebook Live, there was this:
“The video was taken down by Facebook shortly after it was broadcast but the company said in a statement that that was a mistake, explaining that the video did not expressly violate company policy on violent and graphic content.
“We’re saddened by what took place in St. Louis yesterday,” a Facebook spokesperson told the Post-Dispatch. “Under our policies, the video has been covered with a warning screen but remains on the platform so that people can raise awareness or condemn this event.”
The 13-minute video has been viewed more than 94,000 times.
Good for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. This crime of a looter shooting a black retired police captain should be viewed by as many people as possible. If Black Lives Matters, David Dorn’s life most assuredly mattered.
But let’s go back to Zuckerberg’s resistance to the Hate Trump Facebookers wanting to censor the President because he said “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
The President, as the shooting of Captain Dorn by looters vividly and tragically illustrates right there on Facebook Live, was exactly right.
The looting has led directly to the shooting murder of Captain Dorn. And in the irony of ironies, it was committed live on Facebook.
Are apologies from Facebookers Brandon Dail and Timothy Aveni to Mark Zuckerberg forthcoming?
Of course not.
