The hypocrisy of Facebook's silence on Peter Thiel's support for Donald Trump

Tolerance of the Facebook board member supporting Trump's divisive campaign reveals an industry where actions don't match the mission

It's not often that Mark Zuckerberg invokes the values of Facebook to rebuke the people he works with, but this year, he reached a tipping point with the "deeply upsetting" views of one of the members of his board of directors, which he disavowed as "not represent[ing] the way Facebook or I think at all".

"Facebook stands for helping to connect people and giving them voice to shape their own future," he wrote. "But to shape the future we need to understand the past."