Facebook has relied on its non disparagement clause in employee contracts to protect it from having the messy reality of managing the thoughts, feelings, and desires of hundreds of millions of humans through their digital, server-based platform.
Now, employees are beginning to challenge the constitutionality of the clause, and legislatures are considering action to make it illegal.
Facebook demands silence from people who know its operations best
From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-08-03 06:00:38
Excerpt:
California may be moving to change some of Silicon Valley’s reliance on nondisparagement agreements. In mid-August, the legislature is scheduled to vote on the Silenced No More Act, which includes protection from nondisparagement agreements in the case of workplace discrimination…..
Unfortunately, most of the people who know the most about the company’s inner workings have only been willing to speak to the press anonymously, for fear of retaliation or breach of nondisparagement agreements that are widely used in the tech world.
I worked at Facebook for about six months in 2018, hired as global head of elections integrity ops for political ads as the company attempted to dig out from its last big public relations crisis — the scandal around Cambridge Analytica’s improper use of the site’s data and Russia’s use of the platform to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. But they stripped my title and changed my job description on my second day there. I was later sidelined for questioning why we were not fact-checking political ads and for trying to help ensure that we were not allowing voter suppression to occur through these ads. After I asked to move to a different part of the company where I would be empowered to do the job I was hired to do, I was fired.
