Facebook Employees Leaving As Hate Speech Festers
On Wednesday, a Facebook data scientist departed the social networking company after a two-year stint, leaving a farewell note for their colleagues to ponder. As part of a team focused on Violence and Incitement, they had dealt with some of the worst content on Facebook, and they were proud of their work at the company.
Despite this, they said Facebook was simply not doing enough.
With so many internal forces propping up the production of hateful and violent content, the task of stopping hate and violence on Facebook starts to feel even more sisyphean than it already is, the employee wrote in their badge post, a traditional farewell note for any departing Facebook employee. It also makes it embarrassing to work here.
The departing employee declined to speak with BuzzFeed News but asked that they not be named for fear of abuse and reprisal.
It’s true.