By Deepa Seetharaman Updated Oct. 21, 2016 7:43 p.m. ET Some of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s posts on Facebook have set off an intense debate inside the social media company over the past year, with some employees arguing certain posts about banning Muslims from entering the U.S. should be removed for violating the site’s rules on hate speech, according to people familiar with the matter. The decision to allow Mr. Trump’s posts went all the way to Facebook FB 1.59 % Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who ruled in December that it would be inappropriate to censor the candidate, according to the people familiar with the matter. That decision has prompted employees across the company to complain on Facebook’s internal messaging service and in person to Mr. Zuckerberg and other managers that it was bending the site’s rules for Mr. Trump, and some employees who work in a group charged with reviewing content on Facebook threatened to quit, the people said. “Facebook has never contacted us about employee complaints and has never removed a post,” a spokeswoman for Mr. Trump’s campaign said. “We are not concerned about the liberal Clinton elites who are so intolerant of conservative ideas that…
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