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Facebook software engineer quits and says company is ‘profiting off hate’

By Haley Victory Smith
Published September 8, 2020 7:32pm ET
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Facebook software engineer quits and says company is ‘profiting off hate’
In this June 11, 2014 photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. British data protection authorities said Wednesday, July 2, that it is investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users. | (Jeff Chiu/AP)

A software engineer for Facebook is departing the company over the platform’s alleged permissiveness toward hate.

“I’m quitting because I can no longer stomach contributing to an organization that is profiting off hate in the US and globally,” Ashok Chandwaney said in a letter on Tuesday posted to the company’s internal message board.

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