Facebook Internal Survey: 1 in 4 Not Convinced By Zuckerberg's Defense Against Whistleblower Allegations -- Nearly Half Want Government Regulation

As promised last week, here's the results of a survey conducted last weekend by staff at Blind, an anonymous messaging/virtual community app for employees, asking users their opinions on the recent whistleblower allegations made against Facebook. About 5,000 responded across many social media companies, with nearly 10% of them (482) staff members at Facebook itself.

Courtesy Team Blind, here's the survey results from Facebook employees only, starting with the question, "Are you convinced by Facebook’s defense to the whistleblower’s allegations?"

Here's how Facebook staffers answered:

Notably, a significant minority of Facebook employees (1 in 4) did not find their own company's defense against the allegations to be credible. 

There was a similar result to another question: "Do you believe Facebook puts profits over user safety?"

Here's how Facebook employees who took the survey replied:

Nearly 1 in 4 at Facebook answered that question in the affirmative. 

Facebook staff opinion on the fallout and consequences were more evenly split.  See this next question: "How damaging will the whistleblower’s allegations be to Facebook’s future?" 44% of Facebook respondents believe the whistleblower revelations will be "somewhat" or "very" damaging. 

Finally, to the question,  "Should the federal government impose regulations for Facebook?", responses by Facebook employees were strikingly similar:

If this survey scales to reflect general company belief, nearly half the staff at Facebook believe their company should be regulated by the US government!

All in all, the survey results reflects significant turmoil within the company over the whistleblower fallout. 

To be sure, only a minority of Facebook employees have lost confidence in leadership's trustworthiness.

But look at it another way: Say employees at a major car company were asked, "Do you believe your CEO when he says the company doesn't put profit over passenger safety?" If 1 in 4 employees answered No, would you get in one of their cars?    

Survey images courtesy Team Blind.