Snapchat ex-employees say past editorial practices were racially biased

Last week, Snap was praised for standing up for Black Lives Matter.

But former employees on the content team told Mashable the company didn’t always embrace the fight for racial justice so vehemently. One claimed their manager said a Men's Fashion Week story featured too many black faces. Another said their editors thought stories on black entertainers were too niche. Overall, they described a culture from 2015 to 2018 in which they had to advocate for black representation in the face of racial bias from managers.

"It was constantly a battle of basically arguing with people about their whitewashed views of what good content was," one ex-employee said. "Some days we felt it was our job to be fighting for these voices, and other days it was too exhausting to even put up that fight." Read more...