Why Facebook Employees Wanted To Mark Trump Posts As Hate Speech

The Wall Street Journal reports that election stress is taking its toll on Facebook employees, who saw Trump campaign posts as hate speech and advocated for censorship. A Trump campaign statement published on December 7 that advocated a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States" sparked the internal controversy after Facebook users flagged it as hate speech. That triggered an internal content review by the site's community operations team, some of whom determined that th...