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Mark Zuckerberg should keep donation, fix Facebook instead - Business Insider
Jun 02, 2020 1 min, 27 secs

Perhaps that suits you, but as far as I'm concerned Zuckerberg should keep his little donation.

$10 million, as much as it is, does not make up for the damage that Facebook has done to race relations.

In a post announcing the donation, Zuckerberg added that the money was in addition to some $40 million a year that his foundation gives to "organizations working to overcome racial injustice" and said it's "clear Facebook also has more work to do to keep people safe and ensure our systems don't amplify bias." But these are just words, and Americans have heard them from Facebook before.

We have heard Facebook acknowledge that it has to do better after all kinds of outrages, like the time it was used at a staging platform for genocide in Myanmar.

In a joint statement following a Monday call with Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, leaders from the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Color of Change said Zuckerberg "refuses to acknowledge how Facebook is facilitating Trump's call for violence against protesters." They clearly left the call unsatisfied with what they heard from Facebook's chiefs.

Facebook is a tool, and Zuckerberg doesn't seem to care who uses it or for what.

It is not a signal that Zuckerberg sincerely wants to use his incredible power to improve race relations, because if that's what it was he would simply do it.

Mark Zuckerberg is merely paying a toll.

Zuckerberg's donation is little compared to the problem of race relations in America, and for that we cannot fault him.

So you can keep your little donation, Mark

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