Facebook hit with complaint alleging widespread bias against Black workers

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A Black Facebook Inc worker on Thursday filed a complaint claiming the social media giant's stated commitment to diversity and civil rights, including its support for the Black Lives Matter movement, masks widespread discrimination against Black workers.

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A Black Facebook Inc worker on Thursday filed a complaint claiming the social media giant’s stated commitment to diversity and civil rights, including its support for the Black Lives Matter movement, masks widespread discrimination against Black workers. Oscar Veneszee, a Washington D.C.-based operations program manager, said in a charge filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Facebook has shown a pattern of discrimination in hiring, performance evaluations, promotions and pay, and that Black workers fill just 1.5% of its technical positions.

 

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Literally no one is surprised

SHUTFACEBOOKDOWN

What is it they wouldn't do for BLM? I'm getting cynical in my old age about these things. How many of these stories have come by us that turn up false or part of a game? I'm tired of being played by all the people that are out for something.

Would you really need Facebook if they updated your HS & College yearbooks contact info? Why else use Facebook?

Zuckerberg finding out the hard way what happens when you don't bow to mobs...............

No surprise there.

not surprised...

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