Facebook has a 'black people problem,' says former employee who quit this month

As it stated in A former Facebook employee accused the company of having "a black people problem" in a note published publicly on Tuesday on the social network. Mark Luckie, who is black, said Facebook's population of black employees is not representative of its black user base. "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's note provides an inside look at what it's like to be black inside of Facebook, but it is not the first time Facebook's lack of diversity has been exposed.

Three Cleveland women ran nationwide Facebook racket, indictment says

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Three Cleveland women ran a Facebook racket that defrauded hundreds of moms around the country out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to prosecutors. The accused masterminds started the Facebook page, titled "Zee's Place," to target suburban mothers who were in search of bargains, the indictment says. The customers paid for their orders with money orders, payment apps or gift cards, and received the items with no problem, the indictment says. The duo recruited three other women to pass the proceeds form Zee's Place orders through their bank accounts to Sbeih-Maddox and St. John-Stevenson, according to the indictment. When word-of-mouth got around that Zee's Place was not filling orders, Sbeih-Maddox deleted all of her personal online social media accounts, the indictment says.

Facebook posts on Roscommon eviction incident 'unacceptable', says Taoiseach

as informed in Calls on social media for violent attacks on the bailiffs in the Roscommon eviction incident are akin to "incitement of hatred" and "unacceptable", Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. This week, after the violence during an eviction in Strokestown, Roscommon, posts on social media called for the bailiffs involved to be shot and fed to pigs, while a manager at KBC Bank was told he was a scumbag who should be in a coffin. Facebook has said such post did not violate their terms of service and left the page up. Burnt-out vans and cars outside the house which was the scene of an eviction in Strokestown last week. "As far as I am concerned, social media posts like that are incitement of hatred and incitement of violence," he said.

NBC says Paul Tracy's Facebook account was hacked, renews his contract for 2019

(Photo: Timothy T. Ludwig-USA TODAY Sports)After a two-month investigation, which included in-person meetings with TV racing analyst Paul Tracy, NBC said it believes Tracy was hacked when a racially offensive post was made to his Facebook account. "A few months ago, an offensive social media post was written in my name. As a result of the post, Tracy said he has taken steps to better secure his social media accounts. Tracy said that since he learned of the offensive post "I have been in constant communication with NBC Sports. During the 2003 season, he won the CART/Champ Car World Series season title.

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