{"id":356522,"date":"2018-04-13T05:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/black-caucus-member-tells-zuckerberg-facebook-is-not-nearly-diverse-enough\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T04:29:08","slug":"black-caucus-member-tells-zuckerberg-facebook-is-not-nearly-diverse-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/black-caucus-member-tells-zuckerberg-facebook-is-not-nearly-diverse-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caucus Member Tells Zuckerberg Facebook Is &#8216;Not Nearly&#8217; Diverse Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Congressional Black Caucus member G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday that his efforts to include more black people on his company&#8217;s leadership team have so far fallen short of meeting the goal of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg said Facebook has\u00a0increased\u00a0its representation of black employees from 2 percent to 3 percent, and said the company has implemented several diversity initiatives, but Butterfield said that isn&#8217;t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this is a small increase, it\u2019s better than none,\u201d Butterfield said. \u201cAnd this does not nearly meet the definition of building a racially diverse community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butterfield also said a glance at Facebook&#8217;s leadership team online shows a lack of diversity. That page lists just a few people on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/investor.fb.com\/corporate-governance\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">leadership team<\/a>: Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Financial Officer Dave Wehner, Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer, and Chief Product Officer Chris Cox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is your leadership team, and this does not reflect America,\u201d Butterfield said. \u201cCan you improve the numbers on your leadership team to be more diverse?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg told the Democratic congressman it was an \u201cissue that we\u2019re focused on,\u201d but said the company has a \u201cbroader leadership than just five people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not on your website,\u201d Butterfield responded. \u201cWe can do better than that. We certainly can. Do you plan to add an African-American to your leadership team in the foreseeable future and will you commit&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/black-caucus-member-tells-zuckerberg-facebook-is-not-nearly-diverse-enough\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Black Caucus member G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday that his efforts to include more black people on his company&#8217;s leadership team have so far fallen short of meeting the goal of diversity. Zuckerberg said Facebook has\u00a0increased\u00a0its representation of black employees from 2 percent to 3 percent, and said the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}