It took two weeks of explosive, transformative national upheaval on race and policing before the head of America’s hyperlocal social network finally took a stand.
“Let me say it unequivocally,” Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar said in a statement sent to millions of members in 200,000 U.S. neighborhoods Thursday. “Racism has no place on Nextdoor.”
To which critics shot back: Has she been on Nextdoor lately? Or, indeed, ever?
Cases of racial profiling on the service — the classic curtain-twitching posts about “sketchy” Black men — were showcased as early as 2015, by Splinter and Seattle Magazine; both reports focused on supposedly liberal neighborhoods. The New York Times found similar cases in 2016. After Nextdoor unveiled its big fix to Wired a year later (two attributes on top of race were now required when reporting suspicious incidents), local activists said profiling hadn’t stopped — the company had just lost interest in responding to their concerns. Read more…
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