Mark Luckie shared the message<\/a> with Facebook management and employees earlier this month after leaving his post as Strategic Partner Manager for Global Influencers focused on Underrepresented Voices. On Tuesday, unsatisfied with the response from management \u2013 who dismissed his experience as not typical of Facebook\u2019s black community \u2013 he shared it with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n I appreciate Facebook’s response to my post calling out discrimination at the company. However, the tone is noticeably different from the only response I received from senior leadership after sharing the post internally. pic.twitter.com\/S3fqT7u174<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Mark S. Luckie (@marksluckie) November 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/center><\/div>\n Public shaming, Luckie recognizes, is key to motivating the social network. \u201cI know from being inside Facebook that Facebook doesn\u2019t take any action against the bad things that it has done unless it\u2019s held publicly accountable<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Similarly, he was careful to couch his observations of workplace racism in terms management could understand, linking to a study demonstrating how biased treatment in the workplace \u201cgreatly impacts employee productivity<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Black employees hold just 2 percent of leadership positions and 1 percent of technical roles at Facebook. A concerted recruitment effort starting in 2016 helped increase the overall percentage of black employees from 2 percent to 4 percent, but Luckie’s post indicates they have a long way to go before the reality matches the rhetoric. \u201cIn some buildings, there are more \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 posters than there are actual black people<\/em>,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Luckie also called out uneven content moderation \u2013 human and algorithmic \u2013 that disproportionately silences<\/a> black users on Facebook \u2013 even when white users post the same messages. One black activist had her own account suspended after she posted a screenshot of racist messages she had received on her Facebook wall \u2013 an act meant to call attention to Facebook\u2019s lax enforcement of its own hate speech policy.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n In between touting common-sense solutions like \u201cteams that require diverse\u00a0<\/em>perspectives should hire diverse people<\/em>,\u201d Luckie warns the company against merely stuffing its ranks with \u201cdiverse<\/em>\u201d hires and going about business as usual. He recommends a system for reporting \u201cmicroaggressions<\/em>,\u201d pointing to employee complaints that they are \u201ctone-policed<\/em>\u201d for speaking in an \u201caggressive<\/em>\u201d and \u201chostile<\/em>\u201d manner, but his recommendations fail to address the more disturbing problems mentioned in his post, such as black employees being \u201caggressively accosted<\/em>\u201d by Facebook security.<\/p>\n Luckie is something of a known quantity for his documentation of the \u201cblack experience<\/em>\u201d in Silicon Valley. He published a similar story after leaving Twitter in 2015, making observations eerily similar to some of his notes on Facebook. \u201cI didn’t know any of us worked here<\/em>,\u201d he claims fellow black Twitterers<\/a>\u00a0confided in him. \u201cI didn’t know black people worked at Facebook<\/em>,\u201d Luckie says black employees at Facebook<\/a> were \u201ccommonly told<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Facebook isn’t the only vocally progressive company to be called out for being less than woke recently. Female employees at Google led a walkout<\/a> earlier this month to protest management’s cover-up of multiple cases of sexual harassment among high-level employees.<\/p>\n Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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