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01-18-2018, 10:51 PM
Facebook appoints its first black board member
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Facebook just appointed it's first black board member.
Kenneth Chenault, the outgoing CEO of American Express, will join the 13-year-old company's all-white board.
SEE ALSO: Facebook just became the ultimate dystopia (http://mashable.com/2018/01/12/facebook-dystopia/)
For Facebook, the decision upholds the promise COO Sheryl Sandberg made with the Congressional Black Caucus (http://mashable.com/2017/10/12/facebook-board-first-african-america-member-sheryl-sandberg/) in October. Chenault also brings decades of experience working at a financial company that's ranked highly for customer satisfaction (http://about.americanexpress.com/news/pr/2017/jd-power-ranks-amex-highest-customer-satisfaction.aspx) and known for brand loyalty.*
That brand respect is something Facebook could use after a year of reckoning with the rise of fake news (http://mashable.com/2017/12/21/facebook-fake-news-abandon-disputed-flag-related-articles/), its role in the 2016 president election (http://mashable.com/2017/09/08/facebook-elect-trump-russia-election/), and "destroying how society works (http://mashable.com/2017/12/11/former-facebook-exec-destroying-how-society-works-chamath-palihapitiya/)."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/18/facebook-first-black-board-member-kenneth-chenault-american-express/)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Diversity (http://mashable.com/category/diversity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), American Express (http://mashable.com/category/american-express/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Kenneth Chenault (http://mashable.com/category/kenneth-chenault/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/9nbjHFX1Cp0
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Facebook just appointed it's first black board member.
Kenneth Chenault, the outgoing CEO of American Express, will join the 13-year-old company's all-white board.
SEE ALSO: Facebook just became the ultimate dystopia (http://mashable.com/2018/01/12/facebook-dystopia/)
For Facebook, the decision upholds the promise COO Sheryl Sandberg made with the Congressional Black Caucus (http://mashable.com/2017/10/12/facebook-board-first-african-america-member-sheryl-sandberg/) in October. Chenault also brings decades of experience working at a financial company that's ranked highly for customer satisfaction (http://about.americanexpress.com/news/pr/2017/jd-power-ranks-amex-highest-customer-satisfaction.aspx) and known for brand loyalty.*
That brand respect is something Facebook could use after a year of reckoning with the rise of fake news (http://mashable.com/2017/12/21/facebook-fake-news-abandon-disputed-flag-related-articles/), its role in the 2016 president election (http://mashable.com/2017/09/08/facebook-elect-trump-russia-election/), and "destroying how society works (http://mashable.com/2017/12/11/former-facebook-exec-destroying-how-society-works-chamath-palihapitiya/)."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/18/facebook-first-black-board-member-kenneth-chenault-american-express/)
More about Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Diversity (http://mashable.com/category/diversity/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), American Express (http://mashable.com/category/american-express/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Kenneth Chenault (http://mashable.com/category/kenneth-chenault/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/9nbjHFX1Cp0