A Facebook spokesperson appeared to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim registry as a “straw man” in an email accidentally sent to BuzzFeed News, and advised his colleagues against responding on the record to an inquiry from reporter Nitasha Tiku. The inadvertent comment comes after nearly 60 employees at major tech companies signed a pledge on Tuesday to not help the government “build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs.”
The email from BuzzFeed News inquired whether Facebook would pledge to not participate in the creation federal registry of Muslims — an idea that has been floated by the incoming Trump administration — and whether it would place limits on the data it...
via The Verge
