The national advocacy group Free Press expressed support Monday for the hundreds of Facebook employees who recently have signed on to an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticizing the social media giant's policy of exempting political advertising from its "misinformation" standards.
"Facebook's own employees are rising up against the company's dangerous decision to help politicians lie to U.S. voters," Free Press vice president of strategy and senior counsel Jessica J. González said in a statement. "They know what's increasingly obvious to others across the country: Letting politicians lie on Facebook isn't about free speech at all; it's about politics and profits, not principles."
González's comments came after The New York Times reported on and published the full text of the employee letter Monday. According to the Times, the letter is aimed at Zuckerberg and "his top lieutenants," has been available on the internal software program Facebook Workplace for the past two weeks, and has been signed by more than 250 employees.
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