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July 23, 2020 06:30 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/23/21335871/former-facebook-engineer-failure-zuckerberg-trump
Former Facebook engineer says that the company has enshrined failure in its policies
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A Facebook engineer said in a farewell video that the company was “failing” to mitigate harm and has “enshrined that failure in our policies,” BuzzFeed News reported on Thursday. Max Wang, a Boston-based former engineer who claimed in the recording obtained by BuzzFeed that he joined Facebook in 2011, said he didn’t think CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other company leaders were acting in malice.
“But that does not mean their actions are not going to harm people,” Wang said. He added that he did not believe Facebook was “paying enough attention to the raw human needs of the people who use our platform.” The company is “trapped by our ideology of free expression,” he said.
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/23/21335871/former-facebook-engineer-failure-zuckerberg-trump
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