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BBC:
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: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 10 2020, @02:25PM
This site and its predecessor Slashdot were always about chewing the fat. Back in the day the most commented upon stories were the Columbine shootings and Natalie Portman. Neither of those had to do with tech either. Still most of the stories then and now are tech-related. So, no matter what the story subject is, it's what the community brings to the discussion that forms the discourse; these days, unsurprisingly, politics invades every discussion, because this is what it feels like on the eve of a civil war.
Washington DC delenda est.