Condé Nast employees say Black celebrities like Lizzo and Megan Thee Stallion were rejected from videos based on a 'racist' vetting process
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- Business Insider spoke to 13 current and former employees of Condé Nast Entertainment about the process through which videos are pitched and produced. Condé Nast Entertainment is the famed publisher's video production entity.
- Sources say this vetting process, which measures the various parts of a pitch against historical data, consistently rejects video pitches that would feature people of color and topics about non-white communities.
- In recent weeks, some of Condé Nast Entertainment's 400-plus employees have rallied against this process, according to recordings of company meetings, as a larger reckoning about race takes hold of the media industry.
- Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch recently advised caution when it came to the scale check, according to a recording reviewed by Business Insider. "Whatever system they use for scalability, AI systems have inherent prejudicial things within them," he said.
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The executives who lead Condé Nast Entertainment, the famed publisher's video production arm, are devoted to what's called the "scale check," according to current and former employees. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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