I think their reaction to him being there shows the anti-conservative bias still at Facebook. The statement from Zuck on respecting other views is a vein attempt at appeasing conservative concerns now that Trump + the Congress and Senate are rightfully beginning to scrutinize them, Google, Twitter etc.. If they actually meant what they said they could have simply released a statement saying that Kaplan is attending as a friend of Kavenaugh, his presence there was not at all related to his job at Facebook nor does his presence or personal opinions the opinions of Facebook etc....... If anything supporting Kaplan's choice to attend both publicly and privately would have given Facebook some ammunition to say that they are taking tolerance towards other political views seriously... At this point they are continuing to provide more ammunition to the people calling for the revocation of safe harbor, breakup of the company, increased regulation etc..
