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Over the past few months, Facebook critics have asked why disgruntled employees haven't left. Inside FB, loyalists have told unhappy folks to vote with their feet. People are now doing so, and they're torching FB in their goodbye notes. We got them: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving
These goodbye posts aren't just empty missives. They are full of data and details. One departing data scientist estimated 5 million of the 5 billion pieces of content posted to the social network daily violates the companyâs rules on hate speech. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving
More stunning, that data scientist estimated that, even with artificial intelligence and third-party moderators, the company was âdeleting less than 5% of all of the hate speech posted to FB.â
Others wrote that AI is simply not the answer to combat hate. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving
Others wrote that AI is simply not the answer to combat hate. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving
The data scientist also revealed the existence of a "Hate Bait dashboard" which tracks pages that generate content that lead to the most hateful comments. The top 10 over the last 2 weeks were all conservative pages, among them Breitbart, Fox News, Trump.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving
Another stunning stat on turnover and hiring: Zuckerberg said in a meeting yesterday that 20,000 employees haven't even seen the inside of a FB office because they all started this year. That's roughly 35% of FB's full-time workforce. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-rules-hate-speech-employees-leaving
This story and others we've reported were not the result of us going thru the frontdoor and asking Facebook. If you know of something going on in the inside and want to talk, please reach out. DMs open. https://twitter.com/mosseri/status/1336773398450458624
If you like this story, check out this feature from @CraigSilverman and me yesterday on the business that's propping all this up: Facebook's out-of-control $80 billion ad machine, a system full of scams and fraud https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ad-scams-revenue-china-tiktok-vietnam
