Facebook Employees Challenge Company’s Liberal Culture

A growing group of Facebook employees are taking a stand and challenging the pervasive liberal culture of the company.

According to Fox News:

A senior Facebook engineer called out what he termed the company’s “political monoculture” in an internal message board post, prompting over 100 fellow employees to join a group advocating for political diversity.

The group represents less than half a percent of the social media giant’s workforce, and members aren’t necessarily even conservative. But they say they are fed up with the way co-workers who don’t toe the liberal line are treated.

“We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,” Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in the Aug. 20 post titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity” that was leaked to the New York Times. “We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack—often in mobs—anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.”

Since the post went up, over 100 employees have joined a group called FB’ers for Political Diversity. Although other Facebook employees reportedly complained that the group’s online posts were offensive to minorities, a source with knowledge of the situation told Fox News the group’s intent is to be a constructive space and includes people on the left and the right.

The group is a small percentage of Facebook’s employees but they are shedding light on a problem within the company. It is unclear if Facebook will listen and work to welcome opinions from a multitude of different perspectives.

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