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Facebook had invited its employees to submit potential questions to ask Zuckerberg at an all-hands meeting. One of the most up-voted questions that week was \u201cWhat responsibility does Facebook have to help prevent President Trump in 2017?\u201d Fearnow took another screenshot, this time with his phone.Fearnow, a recent graduate of the Columbia Journalism School, worked in Facebook\u2019s New York office on something called Trending Topics, a feed of popular news subjects that popped up when people opened Facebookhe firing of Fearnow and Villarreal set the Trending Topics team on edge\u2014and Nu\xf1ez kept digging for dirt. He soon published a story about the internal poll showing Facebookers\u2019 interest in fending off Trump. Then, in early May, he published an article based on conversations with yet a third former Trending Topics employee, under the blaring headline \u201cFormer Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News.\u201d\n\nInside the Two Years that Shook Facebook\u2014and the World\xa0 https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=7d45ca87bf454eaea5fa8d0f0bbc5800&uid=555181287&nid=244+281088008