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Facebook engineer quits, accusing company of failure on hate speech

A Facebook software engineer has resigned from the company because of the social media giants profiting off hate in the US and globally.

In a post on Workplace, Facebooks internal employee platform, Ashok Chandwaney posted a 1300-word document detailing his outrage at the company.

Facebook had recently been the subject of a boycott from numerous advertisers as well as the Anti-Defamation League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , and the Color Of Change.

They argued that Facebook has not done enough to call out Holocaust denial as hate and is actively choosing not to do so.

Violent hate groups and far-right militias are out there, and theyre using Facebook to recruit and radicalise people who will go on to commit violent hate crimes.

This included giving the far right publication Breitbart a pass on our misinformation policies and that the companys response was to hide the receipts

Another Facebook employee had stepped down after publishing information that stated all misinformation strikes against Breitbarts page and against their domain cleared without explanation by Facebook employees.

The engineer criticised Facebook as a means to build social value, saying that the meaning of this value escapes him and that decisions have actually come down to business value.

Original article
Author: The Independent

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