Delighted to welcome Roy Austin to Facebook as our first VP of Civil Rights. He brings 25 yrs of experience as both a civil rights lawyer and advocate—from the courtroom to the White House. Roy will establish Facebook’s new civil rights team. Welcome Roy! https://t.co/D5ETxv9wVq
— Nick Clegg (@nick_clegg) January 11, 2021
so all of sudden there is a VP of civil rights now? when they literally spent years and had a firm targeting civil rights groups?!!
— Shireen, Harlem's Shuri, In Political Mecca! (@digitalsista) January 11, 2021
Okay..
Roy Austin Joins Facebook as VP of Civil Rights -https://t.co/ofcqXbHexj pic.twitter.com/Izj7SHHnPU
Civil rights leaders have long pressured Facebook to make this hire. Austin will have major challenges ahead after FB’s own civil rights audit found its decisions were a “tremendous setback.” https://t.co/jnoEALHpBp
— Cat Zakrzewski (@Cat_Zakrzewski) January 11, 2021
Hard pivot to Biden. https://t.co/NyXDSWdfaW
— Kim-Mai Cutler (@kimmaicutler) January 11, 2021
Facebook hires a VP of civil rights https://t.co/tKDiq6IQKc
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) January 11, 2021
Facebook is apparently more nervous than Twitter right now. https://t.co/pqUzo7V3mc
— Think Bigger (@commonvantage) January 12, 2021
Roy's appointment as Civil Rights VP is an historic & timely milestone in the evolution of Facebook. FB will now be taking a systematic and structural approach to addressing the many civil rights concerns that I laid out in the FB Civil Rights Audit. https://t.co/sTfRnxtH91
— Laura W. Murphy (@Lwmurphy) January 11, 2021