‘Cannot keep excusing Facebook’s behavior’: Employee resigns over company’s refusal to censor ‘abhorrent’ Trump posts

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A Facebook employee resigned over CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to censor President Trump’s controversial posts.

Timothy Aveni, whose LinkedIn profile says he worked as a software engineer “fighting misinformation,” announced he was leaving the social media company on Monday because “Trump has enjoyed an exception to Facebook’s Community Standards” that allows him to post “abhorrent, targeted messages that would get any other Facebook user suspended from the platform.”

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