A recruiter joined Facebook to help it meet its diversity targets. He says its hiring practices hurt people of color.
Facebook has set an ambitious hiring goal of 30 percent more people of color in leadership by 2025. But current and former Black employees involved in hiring — as well as potential recruits who filed a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last summer — describe a problematic system that makes it difficult to achieve that and other diversity goals. https://wapo.st/31WKKKx
Google hired the co-founders of prominent AI start-up Character.ai, in a deal similar to recent transactions by Microsoft and Amazon that drew antitrust scrutiny. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/02/google-character-ai-noam-shazeer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
Born at least in part of idealism, WikiLeaks’ aid to a Russian influence operation succeeded so well that it ushered in a golden era of hacking and leaking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/26/wikileaks-leaks-reveals-hacking-influence/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger
