Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg said the company is preparing to release a civil rights audit. The Anti-Defamation League's CEO says that it is not a 'good-faith effort.'
Facebook plans to meet with a group of civil leaders behind the "#StopHateForProfit" campaign on Tuesday.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma , at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016.Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg plan to meet on Tuesday with leaders from the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change, which are three of the groups that have led the call for what is now a
"While the audit was planned and most of it carried out long before recent events, its release couldn't come at a more important time," she writes in the post. "It has helped us learn a lot about what we could do better, and we have put many recommendations from the auditors and the wider civil rights community into practice. While we won't be making every change they call for, we will put more of their proposals into practice soon.
"If this were a good-faith effort to release the audit, they wouldn't be shoehorning it in, accelerating its release, timed with our meeting today," he said. "If this were a good-faith effort, they would have already given us how they're responding to our recommendations, rather than spinning with a Facebook post hours before the meeting.
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