Via Engadget:
Some Facebook employees fought to remove posts from Donald Trump in which the Republican presidential candidate called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, arguing that the comments violated the website’s rules on hate speech, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg eventually ruled on the issue and directed employees to not delete any of Trump’s posts. Zuckerberg said it would be inappropriate to censor a presidential candidate, according to the WSJ.
After Zuckerberg’s decision, some employees tasked with reviewing content on Facebook threatened to quit, and more still continued to complain that the company was bending its rules on hate speech for Trump.
According to the report, more than a dozen Muslim employees discussed the policy with their managers and one Muslim employee asked Zuckerberg himself at a town hall meeting how he could approve of Trump’s message. The WSJ reports that Zuckerberg admitted Trump’s comments did amount to hate speech, but he said the consequences of deleting the posts were too drastic.