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I'd say if you are looking to join a FAANG company based on moral criteria that Facebook is absolutely the worst offender. The list of its criticisms has its ow
by nexthash 6y ago
I'd say if you are looking to join a FAANG company based on moral criteria that Facebook is absolutely the worst offender. The list of its criticisms has its own dedicated Wikipedia page with 439 citations [1]. But allow me to give you a rundown of the worst ones in my opinion:
- Allowing the proliferation and organization of a genocide against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
- Same type of thing in Sri Lanka related to spreading violence
- Allowing the mass distribution of disinformation & the corruption of public opinion in the 2016 US presidential election
- The absolutely massive level of surveillance/data gathering
- The release of this data to a political firm (Cambridge Analytica)
- Running emotion/political influence experiments on its users
If you are looking at companies from a moral/mission standpoint, stay far away from Facebook. They are a Pandora's box of ethical problems and have broken every guideline you can name.
P.S. I don't know about morale issues at Facebook related to this but I've read that the younger generation of CS graduates is less willing to work at Facebook and asking recruiters tough questions [2]. For further information on the temperature there it might be useful to check Glassdoor [3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/jobs-facebook-computer-science-students.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/technology/jobs-facebook-...
[3] https://www.glassdoor.com/facebook https://www.glassdoor.com/facebook