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REUTERS: A Black Facebook Inc worker on Thursday filed a complaint claiming the social media giant's stated commitment to diversity and civil rights, including its support for the Black Lives Matter movement, masks widespread discrimination against Black workers. Oscar Veneszee, a Washington D.C.-based operations program manager, said in a charge filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Facebook has shown a pattern of discrimination in hiring, performance evaluations, promotions and pay, and that Black workers fill just 1.5per cent of its technical positions. "There may be Black Lives Matter posters on Facebook's walls, but black workers don't see that phrase reflecting how they are treated in Facebook's own workplace," Veneszee said in the complaint. Veneszee was joined by two Black professionals who said they had applied for various jobs with Facebook but were never hired despite being qualified for the positions. The workers are represented by Peter … [Read more...] about Facebook hit with complaint alleging widespread bias against Black workers

SINGAPORE: Social media giant Facebook said on Thursday (Mar 22) that it “got it wrong” and it had a “moral obligation” to inform its users earlier about the breach in its policies involving political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. This is according to its vice-president of public policy for Asia-Pacific, Simon Milner, who appeared before the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods. He was questioned by Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam for about three hours. Mr Shanmugam had quizzed Mr Milner about allegations that Facebook data was misused by Cambridge Analytica and whether it was “odd” that users on the social media platform were not informed earlier. To that, Mr Milner said “it definitely looks like a decision where we made a wrong call”. “We should have let people know. Our CEO has owned that decision and said that we got that wrong,” he added, referring to founder Mark Zuckerberg’s post on Facebook overnight. In that post, Zuckerberg admitted that … [Read more...] about ‘We made a wrong call’: Facebook says it should have informed users earlier on Cambridge Analytica breach

SINGAPORE: Law Minister K Shanmugam has instructed that a correction direction be issued to the National Times Singapore Facebook page about statements made on the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA). A targeted correction direction has also been issued to Facebook, which requires the social media platform to communicate a correction notice to all users in Singapore who access the falsehood through its service, said the Ministry of Law on Wednesday (May 27). The government website Factually listed the following as "false and misleading statements" in the National Times Singapore Facebook post, which was published on May 15: “Every criticism has been outlawed by the Singapore government through its new POFMA legislation, where the politicians in power get to decide what is truth.” The Minister for Law had issued a POFMA direction to ban a video. READ: POFMA: Singapore States Times, Alex Tan's Facebook pages to be Declared Online Locations … [Read more...] about National Times Singapore issued correction direction over false POFMA statements in Facebook post

SINGAPORE: Minister for Communications and Information S Iswaran has directed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) Office to order Facebook to disable Singapore users' access to the States Times Review (STR) Facebook page. The Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) announced this in a media release on Monday (Feb 17), after the STR Facebook page failed to comply with correction directions it had been served with. "The STR Facebook page has repeatedly conveyed falsehoods and not complied with any of the POFMA directions that it has been served with," said MCI. STR's Facebook page was designated as a Declared Online Location on Saturday, a day after Health Minister Gan Kim Yong ordered that the page be served a correction direction for a post containing claims about the COVID-19 situation that were "entirely untrue". "The STR Facebook page has not carried the required notice stating that it has been declared a DOL, which serves to … [Read more...] about Government orders Facebook to disable Singapore users’ access to States Times Review page

SINGAPORE: Facebook has issued a correction notice for a States Times Review Facebook post in a first for the platform, after it was instructed to do so on Friday (Nov 29) by the office overseeing the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act. On Saturday, the notice could be seen at the bottom of the original post. "Facebook is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says this post has false information," the notice said. A Facebook spokesperson told CNA the company, as required by Singapore law, applied a label to these posts. "As it is early days of the law coming into effect, we hope the Singapore Government’s assurances that it will not impact free expression will lead to a measured and transparent approach to implementation,” the spokesperson said. READ: Facebook instructed by POFMA Office to publish correction notice on States Times Review's post Facebook's action comes after the States Times Review was ordered to correct the … [Read more...] about Facebook issues correction notice on States Times Review’s post