Facebook and Snap Inc investigating racism, sexism platforms and within company | Malay Mail

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — On Tuesday, both Facebook and Snapchat parent company Snap Inc announced that they will begin taking a closer look at the racism each has been accused of allowing in their algorithms and within the company. With the Black Lives Matter movement igniting worldwide calls to...

reported that the latter is launching a “‘confidential’ investigation into allegations of discrimination at the company.”

Essentially since its existence, Facebook has been accused of utilising racially biased algorithms to power its platform, though it has appeared hesitant for many years to “explore the way its products affect different minority groups.” Finally, the company is creating a research team exclusively dedicated to reviewing algorithms that are suspected to be discriminatory against minority and underrepresented groups.

Likewise, Snap Inc is looking into the racism — and also sexism — within the company, more specifically that which exists at the office and between staff members. An investigation is being launched to examine the company culture primarily over the past five years. Specifically, the leadership within the company has perpetuated a racist culture and a series of accounts are being probed.

Facebook’s diversity numbers within the company and its progress over the years can be viewed within their diversity report, which was published last week. Snap Inc, on the other hand, has never released a diversity report, telling that, “We’ve been worried that all these disclosures have actually normalised the current composition of the tech workforce.” — AFP-Relaxnews

 

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