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'Crisis of integrity:' Some Facebook employees say they've had enough

Alongside a picture of his Facebook employee badge and a drawing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Adin Rosenberg posted a lengthy note Monday explaining why he was leaving the company.

Rosenberg, who had been a software engineer for almost six years before leaving, is one of a now-steady trickle of Facebook employees who have left in recent months and made clear that they do not see the company as a force for good.

In recent months, at least four employees have quit in protest, each posting a message to their colleagues on their way out.

While foreign interference remains a threat, the company has also been pushed to do more about domestic issues related to extremism and racism.

Facebook has faced external criticism for years, but the internal pushback from employees is a relatively recent phenomenon following CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to leave up a post from President Donald Trump that was criticized as a call for violence against protesters.

The company recently put in place new rules about how its internal message boards a feature that allows employees to openly discuss a wide variety of topics and dates back to the early days of the company can be used.

Two employees, who spoke to NBC News anonymously for fear of losing their jobs, said the more restrictive rules have been met with resistance and criticism. Political and social commentary that were once allowed anywhere in the system are now only permitted in specific, moderated groups, they said.

In addition to its QAnon ban, the platform has also given Trump little leeway, removing a post from the president's account Tuesday that compared the coronavirus to the flu.

The two Facebook employees echoed what Rosenberg and Chandwaney touched on: a lack of company motivation to make hard choices that would go against Facebook's mission statement to bring the world closer together.

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