Former Meta Engineer Ferras Hamad Sues Over Alleged Bias in Gaza Content Handling on Tuesday

Jun 5, 2024, 05:34 AM

A former Meta engineer, Ferras Hamad, has filed a lawsuit against the social media giant, alleging bias and wrongful termination. Hamad, a Palestinian-American who joined Meta's machine learning team in 2021, claims he was fired for attempting to address bugs that led to the suppression of Palestinian Instagram posts related to the war in Gaza. The lawsuit, filed in a California state court on Tuesday, also accuses Meta of deleting internal employee communications mentioning the deaths of Gaza relatives. Hamad's complaint includes allegations of discrimination and other wrongdoing by the company.