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Facebook fires employee in Black Lives Matter dispute

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Facebook 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…
Facebook 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.
Dail had been with the company for more than two years, according to his LinkedIn profile.
“In the interest of transparency, I was let go for calling out an employee’s inaction here on Twitter.

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