Facebook fires employee who protested inaction on Trump posts

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

TECHNOLOGY NEWS JUNE 12, 2020 / 6:05 PM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO

Facebook fires employee who protested inaction on Trump posts

Katie Paul
3 MIN READ

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc fired an employee who had criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by U.S. President Donald Trump this month, citing his tweet challenging a colleague’s silence on the issue.

Brandon Dail, a user interface engineer in Seattle, wrote on Twitter that he was dismissed for publicly scolding a colleague who had refused to include a statement of support for the Black Lives Matter movement on developer documents he was publishing.

Dail sent the tweet a day after joining dozens of employees, including the six other engineers on his team, in abandoning their desks and tweeting objections to Zuckerberg’s handling of Trump’s posts in a rare protest at the social media company.

“Intentionally not making a statement is already political,” Dail wrote in the tweet, sent on June 2. He said on Friday that he stood by what he wrote.

Facebook confirmed Dail’s characterization of his dismissal, but declined to provide additional information. The company said during the walkout that participating employees would not face retaliation.

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[RockRaven]

1. Facebook is a force for evil in the world. Stop using it. Stop using its subsidiaries.

Stop cooperating in your own manipulation and oppression.

[TristanIsolde]

2. I need to quit facebook, but I cannot find an alternative to remain connected with aqcuaintances

and extended family. Saves me the need to call everybody once in a while to check on them.

[Skittles]

3. call people once in a while to check on them

email, heck, even SNAIL MAIL them once in a while

heaven forbid you PUT A LITTLE EFFORT into "keeping up with friends and family"....people who were never sucked into the FB Borg are able to do it and so can you

FUCK FACEBOOK

[TristanIsolde]

4. You can do that with immediate family amd some close friends

Doing that with your high school friends, college friends , previous work colleagues , people you have met on trips, etc. The number of people who need to keep in touch with gets into the hundreds. That is the allure of facebook, it is like a fancy digital address book.

Facebook is evil, and there needs to be an open source alternative, but that has not materialized yet.

[Skittles]

5. LOL

hundreds? sorry, that's some kind of weird obssession

[Amy-Strange]

13. Hundreds?

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That's a lot of people to share with, but to be honest, FB really is the only way to do that kind of thing.

Personally, I stay because it gives me a way to advertise my book.
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[mr_lebowski]

6. I use it, but I make sure all I do is cost them money ... never make them any ...

Which I kinda think is even better than not using it ...

[Skittles]

7. uh huh

[Amy-Strange]

12. That makes sense, but...

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if you have millions of people thinking the same way, it just means more ad dollars for FB.

Personally, I stay because it's one of my many ways to advertise my book.
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[mr_lebowski]

14. I use an ad blocker so I see very very few ads and wouldn't click one if you paid me ...

I don't have the app on my phone because ad block won't work.

Pretty much I use it to post anti-Trump shit, music videos (like I do here), and chit chat with a few friends and that's about it ...

[secondwind]

8. Instagram is available. Perhaps that would work.

[Eugene]

11. Instagram is owned by Facebook, and so is WhatsApp.

[Squinch]

9. But but... I NEED those photos of my cousins' restaurant meals!!1!

And there is no other way on earth to communicate with people!!!1!

[dalton99a]

10. It's important to know what everyone had for breakfast and the advertisements they liked

and what their long-lost 2nd cousin looked like 10 years ago when everything was a mess because of Obama