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Facebook 'Profits from Hate' Claims Engineer Who Quit

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 09 2020, @11:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the $$$ dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @03:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @03:10PM (#1048992)

    2-3 decades ago when I was younger, it seemed like blatant racism was largely a thing of the past or confined to rural Appalachia or parts of the South, and I think this was because society had trained us to keep these views private and not share them much or risk being ostracized. This seems to be changing now; with more blatant racism becoming evident.

    Yeah, I see that with "progressives" claiming that white people are not allowed to do things that are "stereotypically black", that supposedly being "cultural appropriation". Or that black people should get better access to jobs than whites. Or that black people are somehow owed "reparations" from whites who themselves escaped economic exploitation.