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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2020, @06:33PM (1 child)
You could chose to read something scientific instead of guessing while lamenting about STEM and maybe grow out of misandry and be a better person yourself.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday September 11 2020, @02:30AM
I think what is often the case here is that many of us do work in STEM, but are focused on our own narrow areas of interest. And, given the state of STEM today, jargon and key concepts even outside your lane a little bit can inhibit you from opining on them with any sort of confidence. In fact over the years that I've observed /. and Soylent it is often topics like traffic, or coffee, or sleep habits, or that sort of universal topic that draw the most comments, because many can relate to them no matter what their professional specialty is. But the moments I relish are those wonderful times when lightning strikes and a story hits the front page that a Soylentil is actually working on, and he or she is able to add illumination no one else can.
Washington DC delenda est.