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> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-... Sum
by hayst4ck 6y ago
> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-...
Summary: Engineer builds dashboard of links that get the most hateful responses. Engineer notices it's also conservative media. Engineer understands that there is a direct tradeoff between engagement (profit) and doing the right thing (not promoting content that breeds hate). Engineer quits because Facebook does not do the right thing.
If hateful content is engaging and Facebook is promoting content (putting it higher in feeds) because it is engaging, then Facebook is promoting hate.
Engineers have quit because they see Facebook's complete lack of ethics and understand that Facebook is hurting the world.