Facebook Fires Employee Who Criticised Mark Zuckerberg For Not Taking Action Against Donald Trump's Post on Anti-Racism Protests
Facebook on Friday fired an employee for criticising Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg who refused to take action against inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump. The former Facebook employee criticised a co-worker on Twitter after he refused to add a statement supporting Black Lives Matter to the documentation for an open-source software project.
New York, June 13: Facebook on Friday fired an employee for criticising Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg who refused to take action against inflammatory posts by US President Donald Trump. The former Facebook employee criticised a co-worker on Twitter after he refused to add a statement supporting Black Lives Matter to the documentation for an open-source software project. Trump's Racist Remarks Make Racism as Most Searched Word.
According to reports, Brandon Dail, a user interface engineer in Seattle had publicly scolded the colleague who had refused to include a statement of support for the Black Lives Matter movement on developer documents which he was publishing. Dail tweeted that he was fired from the job for publicly scolding a colleague for not adding the statement in support of anti-racism protest. Dail, along with dozens of Facebook employees, had also criticised Zuckerberg's inaction regarding controversial posts of Trump. Minnesota Riots: Twitter Flags Donald Trump's Latest Tweet for Glorifying Violence Over Killing of George Floyd.
On June 2, Dail had tweeted, “Intentionally not making a statement is already political.” The social media giant confirmed that Dail was terminated from the job. I can confirm the accuracy of Brandon's tweets explaining what happened," a Facebook spokesperson told Business Insider. However, the former Facebook employee said that stood by what he said. Dail tweeted, “In the interest of transparency, I was let go for calling out an employee's inaction here on Twitter. I stand by what I said. They didn't give me the chance to quit.”
Last month, Twitter flagged a tweet from Trump on looting in Minnesota, which took place during anti-racism protests. The micro-blogging platform said that the Tweet violated its policies regarding the glorification of violence. However, Facebook did not took action against on US President’s post.
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