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Facebook Employee Who Wrote Memo on Company’s “Intolerant” Liberal Monoculture is Quitting
PlanetFreeWill.com ^

Posted on 10/11/2018 10:53:17 AM PDT by PFW

The Facebook engineer who famously wrote a memo decrying the company’s liberal “political monoculture” that is “intolerant” of conservatism has announced he will be quitting his job.

Brian Amerige, the man behind the memo and an internal Facebook message board called “FB’ers for Political Diversity,” wrote to his fellow employees on Wednesday:

“These problems can be solved — just not by me, not any more, at least. I care too deeply about our role in supporting free expression and intellectual diversity to even whole-heartedly attempt the product stuff anymore, and that’s how I know it’s time to go.”

According to Business Insider, Amerige is set to start a company with his friend at the intersection of applied philosophy (epistemology, specifically) and technology.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: politics

1 posted on 10/11/2018 10:53:17 AM PDT by PFW
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To: PFW

Oh noes! Who will develop the FB code
that asks me to report a vile left wing post or
page but does nothing about it?


2 posted on 10/11/2018 11:36:26 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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