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Employee Facebook Fires Protesting inaction at Trump posts
Facebook fired a manager who publicly opposed Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg 's decision this month, citing his tweet challenging a colleague's silence on the issue not to take action against inflammatory posts by US chairman Donald Trump.
Brandon Dail, a Seattle UI engineer, said on Twitter that he was refused to publish a statement of support for Black Lives Matter's developer documents on Twitter because he publicly scolded him.
A day after joining the team of hundreds, including the other six engineers, Dail sent the tweet in a unusual dispute over Zuckerberg's dealership of Trump's posts at the social networking site, removing his desks.
Dail wrote in the tweet on 2 June: "Don't deliberately make a statement is already political. He said he was standing at what he wrote on Friday.
Facebook confirmed Dail's dismissal characterization but refused to supply any further information. During the hike, the company said employees involved would not be punished.
Dail hasn't answered a comment message.
The trump posts encouraging workers upset include the expression 'when the robbery starts, the firing begins,' which was racially motivated in relation to the anti-racist and police violent protests after the murder of George Floyd, a black man who died in the Minneapolis police custody.
Twitter added the same post with a warning mark, claiming it promoted aggression. The Post was untouched by Facebook.
In a tense all-hand meeting with workers that week, Zuckerberg defended his decision. During the meeting, Dail tweeted that "that leadership refuses to stand with us today is crystalline."
Again, Dail objected this week when Facebook and Twitter refused to take action in Buffalo, NY, against a Trump post, which included an unfounded plot on Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester who had been critically wounded by the police.
"Trump's Martin Gugino attack is disgusting and a clear violation of the anti-harassment rules on Facebook. Again, it is highly disappointing to have not been deleted by us (and Twitter)," said he.
In Silicon Valley tech giants, internal disagreement is often encouraged but the companies were accused of criminalizing workers publicly organizing and flying complaints.
Google Alphabet fired a total of five employees in the labor force in late last year, while Amazon expelled opponents of the coronavirus pandemic from its warehouse conditions.
Both businesses declined to terminate staff because they spoke out.
