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Employee who protested Facebook’s stance on Trump posts fired over tweet – Source CNET Tech

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Facebook faced criticism for not taking action against Trump posts that employees said could incite violence.


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Facebook fired an employee who protested the social network’s hands-off approach to President Donald Trump’s controversial posts for publicly calling out another employee’s “inaction” in a tweet. 

Brandon Dail, who worked as an engineer at Facebook in Seattle, said in a tweet on Friday that he lost his job after he asked another employee to add a Black Lives Matter banner to a website about a tool built by Facebook. Dail said the employee refused because he didn’t want to get political. 

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