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Facebook has a problem with black people, former employee charges
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/facebook-has-a-problem-with-black-people-former-employee-charges/ar-BBQa3MJUSA Today
Facebook has a problem with black people, former employee charges
Jessica Guynn 14 hrs ago
SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook has a problem with black people.
That's the assessment of Mark Luckie, a former employee who says racial discrimination is real, both on the company's Silicon Valley campus and on the social media giant's platform.
A Facebook post he shared with management and employees earlier this month and released publicly on Tuesday exposes racial fault lines that Luckie says should be a matter of grave public alarm, with the lack of representation and agency of black people inside Facebook directly affecting how black people on Facebook are treated.
"I wish I didn't have to write it. I was determined to stay there and build," Luckie told USA TODAY in an interview Tuesday. "I had to write what all the black employees are saying and feeling and we don’t feel empowered to speak up about."
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