Facebook for Hire
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Facebook had invited its employees to submit potential questions to ask Zuckerberg at an all-hands meeting. One of the most up-voted questions that week was “What responsibility does Facebook have to help prevent President Trump in 2017?” Fearnow took another screenshot, this time with his phone.Fearnow, a recent graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, worked in Facebook’s New York office on something called Trending Topics, a feed of popular news subjects that popped up when people opened Facebookhe firing of Fearnow and Villarreal set the Trending Topics team on edge—and Nuñez kept digging for dirt. He soon published a story about the internal poll showing Facebookers’ interest in fending off Trump. Then, in early May, he published an article based on conversations with yet a third former Trending Topics employee, under the blaring headline “Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News.” Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=7d45ca87bf454eaea5fa8d0f0bbc5800&uid=555181287&nid=244+281088008 Facebook’s plan to build community with hiring and $10M in grants https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/09/facebook-community-grants/amp/
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