The use of Facebook by Trump supporters involved in the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol has drawn much scrutiny. Slaby believes Facebook and Twitter were too slow to remove Trump from their platforms. Slaby was the Obama election campaign’s chief technology officer in 2008 and chief integration and innovation officer in 2012. Slaby, now chief strategist of the not-for-profit Harmony Labs, suggested: “It starts by not calling them all stupid. “I agree with the reality that you hear on the left of, ‘We don’t want to unify with white supremacy’.

Source: The Guardian March 01, 2021 09:56 UTC