Mark Zuckerberg’s criticism of China is reportedly not going down well with Facebook's Chinese employees
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently been sharply critical of China's internet censorship
- The suicide of a Chinese employee at Facebook's San Francisco headquarters has reportedly exacerbated tensions between employees and management
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's fresh attacks on China are stoking tensions with Facebook's Chinese employees, according to a report from The Information on Tuesday.
The Information does not go into detail, but writes that Zuckerberg's increasingly aggressive stance on Beijing's free speech policies is not going down well with Facebook's base of Chinese employees, many of whom actually hail from mainland China.
During a speech at Georgetown University last month, for example, Zuckerberg went on the attack criticising Chinese state censorship and TikTok, a social media platform and growing rival to Facebook which is operated by Chinese tech giant ByteDance.
Zuckerberg's increased anti-China rhetoric has been viewed by some as an attempt to please US lawmakers and to fend off regulation. It also risks creating an internal divide.
Chinese employees have also taken note of criticism made by execs associated with Facebook, The Information reported.