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Facebook fires employee who tweeted over coworker not supporting Protest
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Facebook fires employee who tweeted over coworker not supporting Protest

San Francisco, June 13, 2020: A Facebook employee lost his job after he tweeted about his co-worker not cooperating with him for the silent Black Lives Matter protest within the company. Brandon Dail, who worked as an engineer at Facebook, tweeted that he lost his job after he asked another co-worker to add a Black Lives Matter banner on an open source website developed by Facebook. "In the interest of transparency, I was let go for calling out an employee's inaction here on Twitter. I stand by what I said. They didn't give me the chance to quit," Dail tweeted, He mentioned the employee by name, saying that "intentionally not making a statement is already political". Facebook confirmed to CNET that that "Dail's characterization of his firing was accurate" but didn't provide fu...