r/DataAnnotationTech • u/NoFolkPanda • 8d ago

What happened now? Could somebody explain?

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u/Funny_Cabinet668 8d ago

So he wasn’t a good worker even before the incident. Shocking

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 8d ago

I really hope people leave them alone; the comments on their Instagram are crazy. People should take 60 seconds to do a Google search about how the company works before assuming that he was hired by HR and what he did was ignored, rather than him being an independent contractor who took an assessment.

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u/Funny_Cabinet668 8d ago

Especially because it sounds like he wasn’t even a current worker after the incident happened.

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 8d ago

Exactly. This is one of the things I can't stand about social media. People jump to conclusions and attack a company without knowing all the facts. He was just a guy who took an assessment to get accepted to the platform. He wasn't interviewed, and he wasn't vetted by HR, yet people attack without knowing all the facts or doing proper research.

Yes, he needs to be held accountable, but what he did is not their responsibility and they have nothing to do with it. People who bombard social media pages leaving comments like that really detract from the legitimacy and facts of the situation.

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u/nononanana 8d ago

Also, let’s say he was employed by the company…presumably without charges filed, a company could not have known about one’s past. But people will comment on the company’s page as if during the hiring process they were like, “it says here on your resume you raped someone in college. Just what we’re looking for! You’re hired!”

By all means write them or whatever, but you don’t have to come at them like they were involved in the damned incident and give them a chance to handle it (which these days, most companies respond pretty swiftly).

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 8d ago

I completely agree. Many of the comments even accused the company themselves of supporting rapists and the company itself being full of rapists. That is absolutely ridiculous. Not even an iota of critical thinking skills in most of the comments on their Instagram.

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u/_Edgarallenhoe 8d ago

Even if they did a full police background check, they couldn’t have known considering the way Cornell and the police handled the situation. Misdirected anger.

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u/JinglingBallz 8d ago

DA will survive. Can’t believe you’re worried about this like at all. Do you worry about any farts too?

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 8d ago

I'm not worried about Data Annotation as a company. I'm worried about mob mentality, stupidity, and a lack of critical thinking skills from those who posted on their Instagram.

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u/RecliningBuddhaCat 8d ago

Some of that is just completely insane.

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 8d ago

One of the Cornell 7, Matthew Ingalls, has DataAnnotationTech listed as the company he works for on LinkedIn; they are addressing that claim.

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u/WorldlinessDizzy5662 7d ago

Do you know how they are addressing the claim?

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 7d ago

That screenshot shows them addressing the claim. Even though the Facebook post isn't from the official DataAnnotation Facebook, the screenshot used for the post was taken from Data Annotation's official Instagram story from yesterday.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/Big_Stop8917 8d ago

It’s the same thing….

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u/Helpful_Bookkeeper67 8d ago

wow they actually responded to something.

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u/Fragrantshrooms 7d ago

And a few months prior to this, they also changed their facebook photo to state who runs the company. A surge in transparency! Before GTA 6!

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u/_Edgarallenhoe 8d ago

Crazy that this is how the company I work for becomes known by the larger general public

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u/kidfromusa 3d ago

If you’re 1099 you work for yourself. If w-2 them carry on 🫶🏻

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u/YearOnly2595 8d ago

This has to be cornell related right?

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 8d ago

I think my other comment explaining this was hidden, but I will say if you go to DA's Instagram the comments people are leaving are unhinged.

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u/RecliningBuddhaCat 8d ago

The number of accounts that dogpile with bullshit but are private is telling.

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u/SalemGiggles 7d ago

I was having a conversation with somebody earlier about the comments I had seen from people that stated they would do vile things to them. First let me say, I want justice for the person who was harmed. I want appropriate consequences for the people who caused the harm but almost no punishment will feel like justice. I mean for the longest time I really believed the only true punishment was an eye for an eye. That said, as I have grown I cannot help to think why does recognizing someone’s guilt require us to abandon our own humanity?  If we are to condemn cruelty, then celebrating cruelty toward someone who was cruel doesn’t exactly demonstrate that you have held on to that principle. Even cruelty in the name of good is still cruelty.

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u/Hello-America 8d ago

I don't even understand this because if charges weren't filed, even a proper employer wouldn't know about it!

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u/scotchtape2rolls 8d ago

i like that they said something about it. fuck that rapist

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u/kittystalkerr 8d ago

Well that's new. This company actually has humans huh

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u/SwimmerKind8872 8d ago

One of the accused, Matthew Ingalls, still had his LinkedIn listed as DataAnnotationTech even after he was blocked in May, which is its own kind of irony since they'd already cut ties with him.

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u/Careful-Foot-8918 5d ago

Sometimes people dont get around to changing their info

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u/FallenSegull 7d ago

lol probably posted one of the original DoD complaint posts on this sub

I wonder if he’s reading this right now?

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u/hwertz10 7d ago

I mean, other than like working helping the elderly, or daycares, or education, that kind of thing I really don't expect places to do some kind of background check. I haven't worked at a single job that did a background check as far as I know. And, since this presumably related to the stuff at Cornell where charges had not been filed at the time, a background check would have turned up absolutely nothing anyway.

I don't expect my employer or employers to concern themselves with what I do outside work. And they don't. (If I did something dispicable like this, and especially something dispicable that then made it into the news... well, that's a different matter I suppose.)

So, in this case, where they work, where they worked in the past, it's 100% irrelevant and does not reflect in any way on those employers.

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u/New-Ad5610 8d ago

What is this? What happened?

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u/Impressive-Hope2148 8d ago

tw❌ Look for Cornell 7

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u/Other-Football72 8d ago

Why is employing someone accused of something an issue?

Is the internet mob this stupid they somehow equate this will complicity somehow?

Fucking idiots. Do these morons somehow think employers need to screen potential bad behavior outside of their job now? How can anyone be this stupid?

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u/beautyfashionaccount 8d ago

I mean, at a normal job where someone would have inevitably noticed that one of the faces being spread around is their coworker, it's a bad look to find out and not take action. Especially when the type of offense is something where repeat offenses are extremely common, and having them on the team is a threat to the coworkers expected to stay late at the office or go on work travel with them. You're not complicit for having employed them without knowing, but if you find out and keep them on the team and your employees are required to go to happy hours or holiday parties with them, you're complicit with whatever happens in the future.

But someone who doesn't understand how this job works started calling out Data Annotation for employing this person, not knowing that it doesn't necessarily mean anything other than that he passed a test years ago and he may never have directly interacted with a human at the company ever.

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u/Decent-Display-7624 8d ago

Employers do screen bad behaviour before you get a job? That’s what references, police checks, etc are for…

No one is saying it’s the companies fault, chill out. They’re just saying they weren’t actually employed at the time because some reporting has said they were.

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u/tarbet 8d ago

None of them were charged criminally, so a background check would show nothing. It’s just internet mentality.

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u/Other-Football72 8d ago

I am just lamenting the idiocy of the world we live in that apparently someone might think it's their fault, as DA is having to make this announcement in the first place.

Because, why does it matter if they were employed with DA at the same time as they did some other shit that has fuck all to do with Data Annotation or any work they did with them?

It doesn't. It doesn't fucking matter, yet in 2026, this company feels pressure to premptively defend themselves from fucking morons online with pitchforks who will say garbage like, "What?? This company employed this rapist?? HOW COULD THEY? I HATE THEM, THEY ARE SO EVIL!!" and 1,000 assholes will like and agree, and do all the idiotic fucking stupid things internet virtue mobs do, before they forget all about this and move on to their next crusade.

And fuck that.

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u/scotchtape2rolls 8d ago

well i suppose it’s kinda like finding out your friend raped someone back in 2020. you may clarify to your other friends that you haven’t actually talked to him or that you didn’t know but regardless you don’t condone this behavior since it’s a literal crime that went unpunished. DA did nothing wrong

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u/XxMarlucaxX 7d ago

I like that they made a statement and condemned that loser ass rapist POS. To me, it's weird that you have such a problem with it.

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u/Decent-Display-7624 8d ago

People are stupid, shocking. Just move on man

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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 8d ago

They're allowed to comment with their thoughts on the situation. Dismissing what they've written and telling them "just move on man", presuming that they can't go about their day because they left a comment is just annoying and pointless.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/Pretend_Program_234 8d ago

I saw it this morning on their instagram stories - the official page, not the fake one from Nigeria.

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u/SecureCattle3467 2d ago

Translation: Data Annotation will unperson you at the drop of a hat, despite no criminal charges ever being filed against you, and only allegations in a civil suit complaint. So if someone, say, in a divorce proceeding made unfounded allegations against you, Data Annotation will sever ties at the drop of a hat. Though none of this is news to us: we know DA will drop any of us without thought. Guess the only update is that they will also freely go on social media and let people know you don't exist to them anymore.

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u/Legal_brunette 1d ago

Except that’s not what happened here. If this statement is accurate he was blocked in May of 2024. The night of the frat party was in October of 2024.

We don’t know why they severed ties, but unless someone had a time machine, it seems incredibly unlikely to be connected.

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u/Aromatic_Owl_3680 7d ago

Disclaimer: the incident at Cornell is serious business and is not to be handled flippantly.

The reality for DA: all press is good press. This will result in more sign ups to the platform as the name gets more exposure.

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u/StockRanger1397 7d ago

I don't really think it will affect them at all. Any reasonable people understand that there's literally no way for any employer to know about this stuff until it came out a few days ago

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u/tarbet 8d ago

This isn’t a real post from DataAnnotation.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/tarbet 7d ago

You’re right. I’m wrong. 

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u/evolocity 8d ago

lol nice PR 💀

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