Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague

Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by _rn on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:33PM (#23505012)

Yeah this is a strange and pretty misleading headline. Here’s the primary source tweet: https://twitter.com/aweary/status/1271522288752455680?s=21

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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by SpicyLemonZest on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:53PM (#23505181)

I really think it crosses the line to being a dishonest headline. Reuters has to know that people will misunderstand it as an accusation that the employee was fired because he protested.

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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by dekhn on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:21PM (#23505380)

This is the MO of news journalism (well, at least a subset). There's a narrative that sells ("big corp = bad, fire person for complaining to zuck") but they still typically include a little detail in the article ("actually fired for harrassing coworker") below the lede.

I don't think I've ever seen a newspaper that hasn't done this.

[edit: if you want to see some articles about misleading headlines, see https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredibly-true-story-of-fake-he... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/youll-cry-when-you... ]

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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by underwater on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:56PM (#23505208)

The original tweet is more telling. https://mobile.twitter.com/aweary/status/1267895488205869057

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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by bsamuels on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:40PM (#23505518)

The first few replies are even more telling. When someone tells him that calling out a coworker is in bad taste, you get this gem

>oh no Arthur thinks I'm rude, how will I recover

https://twitter.com/aweary/status/1267927023596400642?s=20

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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by scarmig on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:55PM (#23505630)

I love that in, another Tweet, someone is giving Arthur shit for... not having his pronouns in his bio.

ETA: apparently the user giving Arthur shit is just trolling

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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by waheoo on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:28PM (#23506199)

He took it serious and apologised before updating his profile.

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Re:Facebook fires employee for publicly scolding a colleague by whateveracct on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:44PM (#23505560)

What a petulant response lmao

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