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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 Friday September 11 2020, @07:52AM (1 child)
Oh right, like the Dakota pipeline?
Sheesh you get stupider by the day.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 13 2020, @01:13AM
He's becoming radicalized in real time. He's a year or two behind Runaway in this particular death spiral but he's following the pattern almost exactly. It's sad, but he's *choosing* this; watching someone willingly throw their own soul into Moloch's burning arms is somewhere north of incomprehensible and barely south of Cthulhoid.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...