Facebook to roll out new policies tightening grip on employee discussions on politics

With more details to be unveiled in upcoming week, Facebook Inc has said on September 17 that it would update its internal communications policy to tighten its grip on monitoring of employee discussions on certain social issues that have potential to become more intense or confrontational. According to international media reports, California-based company will introduce new policies in a bid to ensure that employees refrain from participating in such conversations unless y are directly sought out. 

Bloomberg quoted a Facebook spokesperson, Pamela Austin saying that based on what seniors have heard from ir employees, y currently want ‘option’ to join such debates on social as well as political issues as opposed to seeing such discussions ‘unexpectedly’ in ir work feed. refore, as per Austin, social network has decided to update employee policies along with or work tools to ensure company’s ‘culture remains respectful and inclusive’. 

Furr reports have said that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has anunced new policy at a staff meeting on September 17. However, this report came in backdrop of company’s internal discussions growing more intense while Facebook reckons with its role in widening polarization of political discourse including discussions over Black Lives matter movement with back-to-back incidents of racial injustice taking place in United States. Meanwhile, most employees working for social media giant interact among mselves on Workplace, a business version of Facebook. 

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Google tightening its rules on internal messs

Amid growing scrutiny of tech giants, earlier, CNBC had reported that Google has been asking its employees to indulge actively in moderating internal mess boards as discussions get more heated while working remotely. As per documents received by media outlet, Google has also been witnessing a surge in posts being flagged for racism or abuse on its mess boards. group has reportedly attributed move to Google employees sharing more opinions while working from home leading to ‘tough global conversations’, as per recent internal blog post by company’s internal community manment team. 

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