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A Facebook engineer has quit the firm, saying they "can no longer stomach" being part of an organisation "profiting off hate".
Ashok Chandwaney is the latest employee to go public with concerns about how the company deals with hate speech.
The engineer added it was "choosing to be on the wrong side of history".
Facebook responded by saying it had removed millions of hate-related posts. Another of its ex-engineers has also come to its defence.
The thrust of the post by Ashok Chandwaney - who uses "they" and "them" as personal pronouns - is that Facebook moves quickly to solve certain problems, but when it comes to dealing with hate speech, it is more interested in PR than implementing real change.
Can [or should] Facebook successfully purge its platform of speech it considers harmful?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 10 2020, @04:12AM (2 children)
Which one has a larger audience?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 10 2020, @04:46PM (1 child)
A subject with a larger audience is not necessarily of more value than a subject with a smaller audience.
I have no use for Facebook. I cannot even perceive of any real value it offers other than to loosely manage friends, family and people who I would rather not deal with. (I've never had a Facebook account as of this date. I don't intend to.)
I find Wikipedia useful in a number of subject areas. Not that it is an absolute authority on any subject. But it is convenient. Useful. And if nothing else, a good starting point to searching for more information.
Would a Dyson sphere [soylentnews.org] actually work?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday September 10 2020, @05:51PM
As a free advertising platform, it is one of the very best.
For me, Wikipedia is also more useful, like the trade sections in Reddit. The internet is full of useful stuff, but the chaff is getting a little thick, gotta tune my search better...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..