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After posting an article criticizing Facebook’s lack of diversity and treatment of black users, the company’s former partnerships manager Mark Luckie received a notification saying that his post had been removed. “Facebook has a black people problem,” Luckie said in his memo. The memo was originally sent as an internal email to each Facebook employee and later published on the platform. Luckie told AfroTech he was caught off-guard when he received the notification and that he was able to laugh at the irony of the situation. “I was experiencing some of the same issues I was helping Black influencers with,” Luckie said. “Users are at the mercy of Facebook.” “Mark Luckie’s post does not violate our Community Standards and is available on our site,” Facebook spokesperson Anthony Harrison said. “We are looking into what happened.” The post has since been put back on the website, but its removal emphasizes one of Luckie’s key points. “Black people are finding that their attempts to create...