{"id":52719,"date":"2020-07-24T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2670295"},"modified":"2020-07-24T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:11:00","slug":"former-facebook-engineer-says-that-the-company-has-enshrined-failure-in-its-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/24\/former-facebook-engineer-says-that-the-company-has-enshrined-failure-in-its-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Facebook engineer says that the company has enshrined failure in its policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4000-logo.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/FFsdTF5U-AUApHaHNpVvaUriVVE=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67098839\/acastro_180928_1777_facebook_hack_0001.0.jpg\" width=\"623\" height=\"415\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/FFsdTF5U-AUApHaHNpVvaUriVVE=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67098839\/acastro_180928_1777_facebook_hack_0001.0.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/FFsdTF5U-AUApHaHNpVvaUriVVE=\/0x0:3000x2000\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67098839\/acastro_180928_1777_facebook_hack_0001.0.jpg\" \/><\/span><small>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/small><\/p>\n<p>A Facebook engineer said in a farewell video that the company was &ldquo;failing&rdquo; to mitigate harm and has &ldquo;enshrined that failure in our policies,&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>BuzzFeed News<\/em>reported&nbsp;on Thursday. Max Wang, a Boston-based former engineer who claimed in the recording obtained by&nbsp;<em>BuzzFeed<\/em>&nbsp;that he joined Facebook in 2011, said he didn&rsquo;t think CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other company leaders were acting in malice.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But that does not mean their actions are not going to harm people,&rdquo; Wang said. He added that he did not believe Facebook was &ldquo;paying enough attention to the raw human needs of the people who use our platform.&rdquo; The company is &ldquo;trapped by our ideology of free expression,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside><q>&ldquo;We were asking &lsquo;why do our policies allow for this thing?&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of particular concern to Wang was how the platform handled &mdash; or didn&rsquo;t handle&mdash; a controversial post by President Trump where he commented, &ldquo;when the looting starts, the shooting starts,&rdquo; about protesters in Minneapolis.&nbsp;Facebook opted not to take any action&nbsp;and left the post up, despite Twitter adding a label to the tweeted version for &ldquo;glorifying violence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Wang said Zuckerberg&rsquo;s comments at a company meeting discussing the post felt like &ldquo;gaslighting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We weren&rsquo;t asking &lsquo;does this thing follow our policy?&rsquo; We were asking &lsquo;why do our policies allow for this thing?&rsquo;&rdquo; Wang said. &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t our policies require that we do take some kind of action?&rdquo;&nbsp;Zuckerberg framed his response&nbsp;around following policies rather than fixing policies, Wang added. The response prompted a&nbsp;June 1st virtual walkout&nbsp;by dozens of Facebook employees.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/23\/21335871\/former-facebook-engineer-failure-zuckerberg-trump\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/23\/21335871\/former-facebook-engineer-failure-zuckerberg-trump<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/> Kim Lyons<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p> Kim Lyons<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4000-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\">Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge A Facebook engineer said in a farewell video that the company was &ldquo;failing&rdquo; to mitigate harm and has &ldquo;enshrined that failure in our policies,&rdquo;&nbsp;BuzzFeed Newsreported&nbsp;on Thursday. Max Wang, a Boston-based former engineer who claimed in the recording obtained by&nbsp;BuzzFeed&nbsp;that he joined Facebook in 2011, said he didn&rsquo;t think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/24\/former-facebook-engineer-says-that-the-company-has-enshrined-failure-in-its-policies\/\">Continue reading <span>Former Facebook engineer says that the company has enshrined failure in its policies<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/24\/former-facebook-engineer-says-that-the-company-has-enshrined-failure-in-its-policies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Facebook engineer says that the company has enshrined failure in its policies - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/24\/former-facebook-engineer-says-that-the-company-has-enshrined-failure-in-its-policies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Facebook engineer says that the company has enshrined failure in its policies - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge A Facebook engineer said in a farewell video that the company was &ldquo;failing&rdquo; to mitigate harm and has &ldquo;enshrined that failure in our policies,&rdquo;&nbsp;BuzzFeed Newsreported&nbsp;on Thursday. 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