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The latest diversity report from Facebook shows that it is committed to its targets

Facebook published its latest annual report on diversity, which shows that the company is slowly increasing its employee representation. According to Facebook, women and Black and Hispanic workers have become more represented amongst their employees throughout its categories tracked. However, the Social Network has yet to meet its long-term objectives, such as the underrepresentation by 2024 of 50% of its workforce. That figure is now 45.3%, up against 43% last year.

In 2020, the diversity report on Facebook is particularly important, which is now in its seventh year. In the last month, the employees of the Company went virtually without further action on President Donald Trump 's positions. In the same month several leading companies published their ads on Facebook about what they say were failures in their moderation and hatred speech policies. One of these post came out to thwart violence against people engaged in protest against racial violence, saying "When the pillage begins, the shooting begins."

The annual report shows that diversity grows slowly but in some cases evenly on Facebook. The number of black people employed by her in the USA in non-technical roles increased between 2014 and 2020 from 2 to nearly 9%, by 6 to 11% for U.S. Hispanics and by 23% to 34,2% in leadership posts.

The company's technical roles have been less successful in improving diversity. There are just 1.7 percent and 4.3 percent of Black and Hispanic people in these roles. The number of women in technical roles grew from 15 to 24.1%.
 
In addition to its longā€term 50 percent target, Facebook hopes in the next five years to increase its number of colorful people in leading positions in the United States by 30 percent.
 
This report is the follow-up to a number of other racial equality initiatives Facebook has announced in recent months. In June, she committed 200 million dollars to support black companies and organizations based in the USA and added to its app an additional section with collectors of funds, educational resources and Black people's accounts.

 






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