It constantly amazes me the new and unique ways in which Facebook manages to shot itself in the foot….. https://t.co/hkFoY9VvjZ

— David Gilbert (@daithaigilbert) June 12, 2020

There really isn’t a more destructive force in our current environment than Facebook. https://t.co/4ZTE1znUb4

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) June 12, 2020

The presentation discussed the “benefits” of “content control.” And it offered one example of a topic employers might find it useful to blacklist: the word “unionize.” https://t.co/h18zITKB7x

— The Intercept (@theintercept) June 12, 2020

Wow remember like two minutes ago when Zuck was like "twitter shouldn't be controlling political conversations" https://t.co/20aYO0OJYL

— ThirtyHelens (@30_Helens) June 12, 2020

Mkay so

let me get this straight

Freedom of speech is a paid feature

and unregulated

And they’re designing a system

that encourages suppression

of the voices

of the working class

Cool cool cool https://t.co/Ax1DHj8Jk1

— Jessie Char (@jessiechar) June 12, 2020

facebook is like if the onion wrote a parody Evil Corporation https://t.co/vIVvnp3KFm

— adrian (@Crawf33) June 12, 2020

Facebook is pitching a workplace chat tool to rival Slack. The tool allows administrators to block trending topics and words.

The word Facebook *explicitly* used as an example?

"unionize"https://t.co/vbGLOExPmN

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) June 12, 2020

Can we please keep the rioting thing going a little longer https://t.co/RhzcUFyWdm

— Emily of the State (@EmilyGorcenski) June 12, 2020

Facebook designed a tool that would let employers blacklist words like 'unionize' in employee chats https://t.co/GT4gNKRMAI

— Business Insider (@businessinsider) June 12, 2020

Should probably go without saying, but it's smart to conduct potentially sensitive conversations with coworkers over Signal, not on Slack or Facebook.https://t.co/f9h55NhTnu

— Kevin Collier (@kevincollier) June 12, 2020

Facebook boasts that its new workplace chat product would let companies suppress i.e.censor words like "unionize" from employees' discussions. https://t.co/scRDmicdgG

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) June 12, 2020

During an internal meeting, Facebook introduced features of Facebook Workplace, an office collaboration product. They highlighted the product’s “content control” abilities and offered a very specific example of a word employers could blacklist: “unionize.” https://t.co/9Oo9Ty318d

— Tech Transparency Project (@TTP_updates) June 12, 2020

Meanwhile massive work from home is challenging the entire concept of management as control https://t.co/iAsIcasFgM

— Jeff Sussna (@jeffsussna) June 12, 2020

During an internal presentation, Facebook debuted a feature for its workplace chat product allowing employers to remove & block specific topics that are trending in office chats. The topic chosen in the demonstration was “unionize,” the Intercept reports https://t.co/Q1Tpa5dXEt

— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) June 12, 2020

Did Facebook test this tool internally first? https://t.co/lO48qg7sjR

— ???? ?????????. (@GregBensinger) June 12, 2020

Reminder to my fellow software engineers and PMs: you have an enormous amount of soft power in what the products you work on do and how they can be used. You can use that power. https://t.co/IPG17Dzu3e

— zam (@decarboxy) June 12, 2020

Facebook has been accused by @etuc_ces of breaching a series of internationally-recognised workers’ rights, following the news that its ‘Facebook Workplace’ software attempted to blacklist terminology associated with employee unionisation: https://t.co/yeZpNDvCj6

— Samuel Stolton (@SamuelStolton) June 12, 2020

❗️NEW: We have written to Facebook over plans to ban words like "unionise" from their new Workplace platform

Deputy GS @EstherLynchs reminded Facebook that anti-union discrimination is prohibited by international and European human rights standards https://t.co/40Y9sjD3Pe

— EUROPEAN TRADE UNION (@etuc_ces) June 12, 2020

We wrote a letter to @Facebook on "Content control by employers" experiments via ‘Workplace’ application allowing for “content control” by employers to remove and block certain topics among employees and to have words like “unionize” blacklistedhttps://t.co/40Y9sjD3Pe pic.twitter.com/IqmmHfSwag

— EUROPEAN TRADE UNION (@etuc_ces) June 12, 2020

Facebook axes Workplace feature that blocked trending posts containing 'Unionize' (story by @indianidle) https://t.co/4ZiLFLpxRj

— TNW (@thenextweb) June 12, 2020

"One of the new tools debuted by Facebook allows administrators to remove and block certain trending topics among employees. The presentation...offered one example of a topic employers might find it useful to blacklist: the word 'unionize.'" https://t.co/idregD9dkk @lhfang

— Josh Eidelson (@josheidelson) June 12, 2020

Facebook is pitching a workplace chat tool to rival Slack. The tool allows administrators to block trending topics and words.

The word Facebook *explicitly* used as an example?

"unionize"https://t.co/vbGLOExPmN

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) June 12, 2020

Not cool from the lords of social media. New reporting by @lhfang @theintercept: New Facebook tool would allow employers to suppress words like “unionize” in workplace chat product https://t.co/4St4UtI4Je

— Common Dreams (@commondreams) June 12, 2020

New Facebook tool would allow employers to suppress words like “unionize" in workplace chat product https://t.co/0UpZKOb6X5

— Lee Fang (@lhfang) June 12, 2020

Facebook: We can't ban hate and political disinformation

Also Facebook: Look how seamlessly we can erase any mentions of unions https://t.co/nj2weUZm8l

— Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz) June 12, 2020

The presentation discussed the “benefits” of “content control.” And it offered one example of a topic employers might find it useful to blacklist: the word “unionize.” https://t.co/N0gzUfVPEY

— Mike Monteiro? (@monteiro) June 12, 2020

Facebook has a Slack workplace chat competitor that was presented at an internal meeting recently. The product team showed off the blocking feature, which allows words or trends to be muted internally. The example they used? "unionize."https://t.co/4BQJrpXjNm

— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) June 12, 2020

This is outrageous. @Facebook is helping giant corporations silence workers and stop them from joining #unions.

With #COVID19 already infecting millions, workers must be able to stand up for protections to keep them safe on the job. We need #UnionsForAll.https://t.co/sXA4ijJH6L

— UFCW (@UFCW) June 12, 2020

The Facebook "employees are organizing" news cycle is complete. There was a non-walkout, a bitter all-hands meeting, a sternly-worded letter from former employees, and now we're back to normal. The oversight committee never said a peep. Nature is healing. https://t.co/G7rUjzU1qI

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) June 12, 2020

New #Facebook Tool Allows Employers to Suppress '#Unionize' in #Workplace Chat - The Intercept https://t.co/bgFIlhju4f #Unions #Gewerkschaft

— Paul Nemitz (@PaulNemitz) June 12, 2020

I think DIY show and event organizers should take this covid time away- to collectively consider how to promote shows completely off of facebookhttps://t.co/UTapoWGUZc

— Lxv (@lxv_audio) June 12, 2020

Facebook: on the forefront of squashing workers rights since 2004https://t.co/MJoKRPsFoX

— NYC-DSA ?#DefundNYPD (@nycDSA) June 12, 2020

Facebook demoed a new Slack-like intranet product that allows employers to blacklist certain topics and words. One example term used in the presentation? “Unionize.” https://t.co/jE4VcsgQSl

— Ethan Marcotte (@beep) June 12, 2020

New Facebook tool would allow employers to suppress words like “unionize" in workplace chat product https://t.co/hKdoqXPiCp

— ??? The Populist Voice #1 ? (@PopulistVoice) June 12, 2020

Oh, boy --

Facebook pitched new tool allowing employers to suppress words like "UNIONIZE" in workplace chat product https://t.co/wEqH18xpFh by @lhfang

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) June 12, 2020