Facebook said it fired Brandon Dail, an employee who participated in a virtual walkout last week protesting the company’s hands-off approach to political speech, for publicly calling out another employee over not adding a statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement to a company document. Dail, a software engineer, said on Twitter he was fired for a tweet directed at another Facebook...
Facebook Fires Employee Over Tweet
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