Some Facebook employees starting voicing concerns about the Chinese government using Facebook to spread propaganda. Newley Purnell for The Wall Street Journal reported:
Now, some Facebook staff are raising concerns on internal message boards and in other employee discussions that the company is being used as a conduit for state propaganda, highlighting sponsored posts from Chinese organizations that purport to show Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs thriving in China’s Xinjiang region, according to people familiar with the matter.