Social network Facebook is facing backlash from the tech world after the diversity ‘pipeline’ remarks made by the company’s global diversity chief, Maxine Williams, on Thursday.

The backlash follows the release of Facebook’s annual diversity report on Thursday. The report revealed Facebook’s poor workforce diversity statistics, with hardly any progress made by the company in increasing the ranks of African Americans and Hispanics in its workforce.

With the latest annual diversity report showing that Facebook’s workforce mostly comprises white men, Williams said in a blog post announcing the company’s diversity statistics that the poor workforce diversity being reported by Facebook is a result of a lack of available talent.

Specifically, Williams’ remark which has been slammed by the tech world went thus: "It has become clear that at the most fundamental level, appropriate representation in technology or any other industry will depend upon more people having the opportunity to gain necessary skills through the public education system."

Some blacks and Hispanics working in tech said that the implication of Williams’ remark is that Facebook is blaming the recruitment ‘pipeline’ for not employing more black and Hispanic employees. In criticism of Williams’ diversity ‘pipeline’ remarks, the blacks and Hispanics working in tech have started a ‘#FBNoExcuses’ hashtag on Twitter.