Hundreds of Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout to protest the decision. Zuckerberg doubled down on his decision in a tense town hall meeting with employees. Crystal Patterson found the whole episode disillusioning and left Facebook the next year, 2021.
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Facebook used to brag about how its tools helped politicians swing elections. Now, the platform’s relationship to politics is much more complicated. Today: the story of how one politician, again and again, forced Zuckerberg to confront his own role in democracy.
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