Facebook apologises after workers complain about racist behaviour

social media giant, Facebook apologized on vember 8 after black employees shared ir feelings on facing bias at workplace, online. An anymous post was shared at Medium by an 'FB Blind' which disclosed perceived insults by manrs, white employees, and even human resources department for black employees. Bertie Thompson, corporate communications vice president said, 'we are sorry' and criticised behaviour which was confessed by post. Thompson furr said that incidents are against policies on Facebook. 

Thompson said, “ one at Facebook, or anywhere, should have to put up with this behavior. We are sorry. It goes against everything that we stand for as a company. We're listening and working hard to do better”.

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Incidents described in post

In Medium post, incidents were described by Facebook employees being targeted for negative performance reviews along with insulting comments. post also said that black colleagues are 's, angry, oppressed, and depressed from inside'. also elaborated that regular occurrences of snide comments have me m feel like y do t belong on Facebook. post also referred to as aggressions being 'macro and micro'. This post also came amidst collective criticism received by Facebook for ir work policies along with arising questions of ethics on its stance of political s. post also said that reason for employees choosing to be anymous is because company creates a hostile culture and 'n-white' are me to feel fear for ir job. 

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Zuckerberg defends 'free speech'

Facebook says it won't remove 'newsworthy' content that goes against its community standards. Zuckerberg has defended Facebook's refusal to take down content it considers newsworthy “even if it goes against our standards.” Techlogy companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter are all reportedly trying to be in charge of internet content but at same time, y are also avoiding infringing on First Amendment rights. This has swung recently toward restricting hateful speech that could spawn violence. shift follows mass shootings in which suspects have posted racist screeds online or orwise expressed hateful views or streamed ims of attacks. However, Zuckerberg has also compared social media's capability to start a dialogue with 'fourth estate' which is referred for media.

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(With PTI inputs)