How Facebook is dealing with anti-stay-at-home protesters

Facebook's response to anti-stay-at-home protests, Zoom's security issues, and Whole Foods' unionization heat map. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ [View on the web]( [Recode]( [Click to view images]( [Facebook is taking down some, but not all, quarantine protest event pages]( Facebook is taking down some event pages promoting controversial anti-stay-at-home protests that are taking place across the US — but it’s only doing this in areas where the events violate local Covid-19 social distancing rules. Facebook’s selective response mirrors a larger fracture across the country as the Trump administration has given conflicting guidance about how and when restrictions should be lifted and has largely left these decisions up to individual state politicians. The move comes after Facebook faced criticism for allowing people to coordinate anti-quarantine protests on its platform. Public health officials, state officials, and health care workers say these protests are putting people’s lives at risk: By bringing people together in large crowds, they increase the chances of spreading the highly contagious disease. Others, including President Trump, have defended the protests, saying in a press conference on Monday that the protesters “love our country” and “want to get back to work.” Recode's Shirin Ghaffary reports on how Facebook’s decision to take down these pages comes at a time when the company is trying to step up as a leader in using big data to battle the virus’s spread while also battling efforts by some of its users to spread Covid-19 misinformation. [Click to view images]( [Silicon Valley’s favorite charity is asking its donors to give away hundreds of millions of dollars. Right now.]( Advisers to Silicon Valley billionaires are usually scared to anger them. The coronavirus changed that. [ Theodore Schleifer / [Recode]( ] [Click to view images]( [Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking which stores are most at risk of unionizing]( The scores are based on more than two dozen metrics, including racial diversity, employee loyalty, "tipline" calls, and violations recorded by OSHA. [ Hayley Peterson / [Business Insider]( ] [Click to view images]( [Zoom’s security woes were no secret to business partners like Dropbox]( Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them. [ Natasha Singer and Nicole Perlroth / [New York Times]( ] [Click to view images]( [Kickstarter plans layoffs after new projects on the site drop off by 35 percent]( Talks are starting with the union. [ Ashley Carman / [The Verge]( ] [Click to view images]( [What the US can learn from other countries using phones to track Covid-19]( The US is rolling out digital contact tracing. How has it been working in other countries? [ Shirin Ghaffary / [Recode]( ] [This is Cool Section Title] [This is the right way to play Monopoly]( [Facebook]( Twitter [Instagram]( [Recode by Vox]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences](, or [unsubscribe]( to stop receiving emails from Vox Media. View our [Privacy Notice]( and our [Terms of Service](. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved.