Mark S. Luckie, who had been a manager on the entertainment and partnerships team, sent out a public memo where he accused Facebook of having "a black people problem." When Luckie expressed his concerns to Facebook earlier, he said he was told "'You're not being a team player. You have these concerns, but it's just part of your job.'"
Luckie, who is black, sent his memo to the company's more than 33,000 employees just before he left in November. "Racial discrimination at Facebook is real," Luckie wrote in his memo. "Black people are finding that their attempts to create 'safe spaces' on Facebook for conversation among themselves are being derailed by the platform itself."
This has included black Facebook users who have had their posts tagged as hate speech and accounts suspended by non-black employees he added.
Anthony Harrison, a Facebook spokesman, said the firm has been "working diligently to increase the range of perspectives among those who build our products and serve the people who use them throughout the world."
"We want to fully support all employees when there are issues reported and when there may be micro-behaviors that add up," Harrison said in an email response. "We are going to keep doing all we can to be a truly inclusive company."