Some Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Asking To Switch Departments Over Ethical Concerns (businessinsider.com)

Some dissatisfied Facebook engineers are reportedly attempting to switch divisions to work on Instagram or WhatsApp, rather than continue work on the platform responsible for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to a recent report from the New York Times. An anonymous reader writes: Many believe Facebook should have done more to handle the data responsibly, and the events that followed increased scrutiny against Facebook, reportedly taking a toll on employees working on the platform. Since the news came out, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg have spoken to the media on a few occasions, but it was days before the company commented on the scandal, which it now estimates around 87 million total users affected. Then, a leaked memo from Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth written in 2016 revealed a "growth at all costs" mentality that put Facebook in a position to be held responsible for the situation it's found itself in. As it became evident that Facebook's core product might be to blame, engineers working on it reportedly found it increasingly difficult to stand by what it built.

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Re:Is it really ethical or CYA

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump actively defended neo-nazis. fact. Deal with it snowflake, he's going to die in prison either way.

Re:Is it really ethical or CYA

[DarkOx]

Are you talking about that time when he denouced Richard Spencer twelve times! Or Charlottesville when he made the radical suggestion that maybe just maybe some people on the right did come to protest the remove of statues and maybe its because they like them and not specifically out of some racist agenda. Let me guess you have ignored all the pesky little details about antifa beating people trying LEAVE in a parking garage, or chasing people around with "Assault Weapons."

Meanwhile you stick with a party that is lead by a Nation of Islam radical, won't denounce racists like Louis Farrakhan, and rigs its own primaries. Sorry dude the GOP has a lot of problems; Trump has a lot of problems but they pale in comparison to the corruption and graft that exists on the part of the American left. You are just to dumb to see the truth and that is this - You girl Hillary and your Boy Obama for that matter are no-different than Trump except they are a little smoother about lies and a little better at distracting you while they put one hand in the cookie jar and the other down your daughters pants than Trump is.