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Facebook Fires employee in Black Lives Matter dispute
New York (CNN Business) Facebook (FB) fired an employee who publicly criticized a coworker on Twitter for not adding a statement of support for Black Lives Matter to documentation on an open-source project they were working on.
Brandon Dail, a user interface engineer in Seattle, Washington, announced on Friday in a tweet that he was let go for calling out a colleague on Twitter.
Dail had been among a group of Facebook employees who have been tweeting criticism of Facebook since the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to take no action against President Donald Trump's posts on the platform.
The former Facebook employee stated on Twitter that he asked a coworker, a front-end engineer who supervises Recoil, an open-source project by Facebook, to "add a #BlackLivesMatter banner" as React, another Facebook open-source project, is said to have done. He then called out the coworker for messaging him privately on the matter rather than replying publicly -- leading to his termination from Facebook.
"I'm not claiming I was unjustly terminated. I was fed up with Facebook, the harm it's doing, and the silence of those complicit (including myself)," Dail tweeted Friday.
Facebook employee fired for calling out coworker's inaction about Black Lives Matter - CNN
New York (CNN Business) Facebook (FB) fired an employee who publicly criticized a coworker on Twitter for not adding a statement of support for Black Lives Matter to documentation on an open-source project they were working on.
Brandon Dail, a user interface engineer in Seattle, Washington, announced on Friday in a tweet that he was let go for calling out a colleague on Twitter.
Dail had been among a group of Facebook employees who have been tweeting criticism of Facebook since the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to take no action against President Donald Trump's posts on the platform.
The former Facebook employee stated on Twitter that he asked a coworker, a front-end engineer who supervises Recoil, an open-source project by Facebook, to "add a #BlackLivesMatter banner" as React, another Facebook open-source project, is said to have done. He then called out the coworker for messaging him privately on the matter rather than replying publicly -- leading to his termination from Facebook.
"I'm not claiming I was unjustly terminated. I was fed up with Facebook, the harm it's doing, and the silence of those complicit (including myself)," Dail tweeted Friday.
Facebook employee fired for calling out coworker's inaction about Black Lives Matter - CNN
