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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Dozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its 'Intolerant' Liberal Culture"
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/technology/inside-facebook-employees-political-bias.html
SAN FRANCISCO The post went up quietly on Facebooks internal message board last week. Titled We Have a Problem With Political Diversity, it quickly took off inside the social network.
We are a political monoculture thats intolerant of different views, Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in the post, which was obtained by The New York Times. We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack often in mobs anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.
Since the post went up, more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FBers for Political Diversity, according to two people who viewed the groups page and who were not authorized to speak publicly. The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Ameriges memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company.
The new group has upset other Facebook employees, who said its online posts were offensive to minorities. One engineer, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation, said several people had lodged complaints with their managers about FBers for Political Diversity and were told that it had not broken any company rules.
We are a political monoculture thats intolerant of different views, Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in the post, which was obtained by The New York Times. We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack often in mobs anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.
Since the post went up, more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige to form an online group called FBers for Political Diversity, according to two people who viewed the groups page and who were not authorized to speak publicly. The aim of the initiative, according to Mr. Ameriges memo, is to create a space for ideological diversity within the company.
The new group has upset other Facebook employees, who said its online posts were offensive to minorities. One engineer, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation, said several people had lodged complaints with their managers about FBers for Political Diversity and were told that it had not broken any company rules.
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"Dozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its 'Intolerant' Liberal Culture" (Original Post)
Jamaal510
Aug 2018
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Cha
(297,240 posts)1. Wow.. thanks for the
news, Jamaal. Wth, FB?
Say like this "ideology"/diversity"?..
I got Facebook to remove content from the Tea Party Facebook page that Ron DeSantis
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11074283
byronius
(7,394 posts)3. Applause applause.
dchill
(38,493 posts)2. And that, my friends, is what piss and vinegar tastes like.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)4. so...if your not a racist
its left-leaning ideology.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. You mean you have a problem with hate speech.
Yeah, we get it, snowflakes. Suck it up.