Facebook rep says Trump’s Muslim registry is a ‘straw man’

A Facebook spokesperson appeared to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim registry as a “straw man” in an email accidentally sent to BuzzFeed News, and advised his colleagues against responding on the record to an inquiry from reporter Nitasha Tiku. The inadvertent comment comes after nearly 60 employees at major tech companies signed a pledge on Tuesday to not help the government “build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected relig