Facebook fired an employee after he criticized a coworker on Twitter who refused to add a statement supporting Black Lives Matter to the documentation for an open-source software project they oversee, a spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider.
"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," Bradon Dail, the former employee, tweeted Friday.
"I can confirm the accuracy of Brandon's tweets explaining what happened," a Facebook spokesperson told Business Insider.
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Trump's posts included the racially charged phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" in reference to protests against systemic racism and police brutality held after the May 25 killing of George Floyd.
Zuckerberg's position has prompted rare public rebukes and even resignations within the company, both from Facebook employees and content moderators, as well as external pushback from civil rights leaders and other critics.
Dail again voiced objections this week after both Facebook and Twitter declined to take action against a Trump post that contained an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester who was critically injured by police in Buffalo, New York.
Dail did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
(Reporting by Katie Paul; Editing by Will Dunham)
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