Facebook Enters a New Phrase

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

Phrase #1: A picture is worth 1,000 words.

Phrase #2: An ex-employee is worth 2,589.

Let's start with the one you're familiar with. Facebook (-1.01%) CEO Mark Zuckerberg got trolled by lawmakers from Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Brazil, Ireland, Latvia, Argentina, and Singapore. And for a little extra burn? They did it on Twitter.

Their beef? Zuck (again) failed to show up when summoned by lawmakers to answer questions regarding Facebook's strategy for protecting user data and privacy.

And now to Phrase #2: A former Facebook employee named Mark Luckie claimed the social media company has a "black person problem" in a 2,589-word post. He said he circulated the post to Facebook's employees across the globe just before he stopped working there earlier this month.

• "In some buildings, there are more 'Black Lives Matter' posters than there are actual black people. Facebook can't claim that it is connecting communities if those communities aren't represented proportionately in its staffing," Luckie said.

Zoom out: 3.5% of Facebook's U.S. employees are black, per its latest diversity report.

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