Education
Anti-Trump Facebook Employee Compares Combating Rape To Policing Hate Speech
No featured image available
Notre Dame profiled one of its graduates Tuesday who is employed at Facebook and compared working at a rape crisis center to combating hate speech on the social media platform.
Kaitlin Sullivan is Facebook’s product policy manager and got hired after helping author a statement on hate speech for the social media site. Notre Dame profiled Sullivan, who earned a degree in political science and philosophy, politics and economics at the school before working for Facebook.
“I did service in a rape crisis center,” Sullivan told Notre Dame. “Gender-based violence is a huge issue in our country and around the world.”
Sullivan related the work that she did at the center to her current job at Facebook.
“When I came to Facebook, there were kind of issues to do with misogyny and gender-based hate speech on Facebook and I started a small project that turned into my current job,” Sullivan said. “Still working on safety, still working on bringing people together in communities just in an online world that’s much bigger than the small community I was working with in my service role.”
Sullivan has tweeted posts that indicate an anti-Trump bias.
How I feel right now? That my country may have a leader who said "grab them by the p***y" and 50% of the citizens thought this was OK.
Whatever happens, we have lost. Half this nation voted for white supremacy, sexual assault, and more. The Klan is happy. We should be sad.
— Baratunde (@baratunde) November 9, 2016
"Boys will be good humans." #WomensMarch pic.twitter.com/dOxwP6yrlM
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) January 21, 2017
Conservatives have recently criticized Facebook for suppressing non-progressive content. Former Facebook “news curators” admitted denying conservative news spots on trending lists and artificially making other content trend. Snopes, the company that performs fact-checking for Facebook, is also staffed almost exclusively by leftists. (RELATED: LEAKED: Facebook Guidelines On What To Delete And What Not To, Remains Vague About Goals)
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Facebook for comment, but received none in time for publication.
Follow Rob Shimshock on Twitter
Connect with Rob Shimshock on Facebook
Send tips to [email protected].
All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact [email protected].