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Facebook/Justine Sacco There are two rules for any employee with a personal account on Twitter: 1) the boss can likely see what you're doing, and 2), acting in a controversial manner could get you ...
In December 2013, Justine Sacco, a woman with 170 Twitter followers, tweeted acerbic jokes during a plane trip from New York to Cape Town, such as "'Weird German Dude: You're in First Class. It’s 2014. Get some deodorant.' — Inner monologue as I inhale BO. Thank God for pharmaceuticals."
On December 22, 2013, IAC fired their director of corporate communications, Justine Sacco, after an AIDS joke she posted to Twitter went viral, [60] being re-tweeted and scorned around the world. [61] The incident became a byword for the need for people to be cautious about what they post on social media. [62]
As publicist Justine Sacco's Twitter debacle shows, an insensitive tweet can derail your career (and in some cases, more than that). More recently, the backlash over tweets by.
Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm white!" to her 173 Twitter followers. Biddle posted her public tweet to Gawker, and the woman was later fired after considerable global media coverage of her tweet. In January 2014, Biddle said "It's satisfying to be able to say, 'O.K., let's make a racist tweet by a senior IAC employee count this time.'
Woof — it’s been a looooooong week. If you feel like you’ve been working like a dog, let us offer you the internet equivalent of a big pile of catnip: hilarious tweets about pets. We Shih ...
She photographed the attendees with their faces visible, then published the photograph on Twitter including a shaming statement in her tweet. The following day, the employer of one of the photographed individuals, a software developer, terminated his employment because of the joke. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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