Ferras Hamad, a Palestinian-American engineer who had been on Meta‘s machine learning team since 2021, is suing the company in a California state court for discrimination, wrongful termination and other wrongdoing, accusing the company of firing him for trying to help fix bugs causing the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts, Reuters’ Katie Paul and Jessica DiNapoli report. Hamad accused Meta of a pattern of bias against Palestinians, saying the company deleted internal employee communications that mentioned the deaths of their relatives in Gaza and conducted investigations into their use of the Palestinian flag emoji. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said Hamad was dismissed for violating the company’s “data access policies,” which set limits on what employees can do with different types of data.
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