Lawsuit: Facebook Fired Air Force Vet in Retaliation for Concerns About Company Snooping on Users

A Former Facebook employee and Air Force veteran is suing Facebook (now known as Meta) claiming that he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns about fellow employees accessing deleted user data and sharing it with law enforcement.

Business Insider reports that a former Facebook employee and Air Force veteran named Brennan Lawson is suing Facebook claiming that he was fired from the company in retaliation for raising concerns about Facebook employees accessing deleted user data. Lawson says he was hired in July 2018 to work on Facebook’s escalation team.

Lawson was in charge of viewing high-profile information flagged to the company by journalists, law enforcement, and the government and enforcing the platform’s content moderation guidelines. Lawson claims in 2019 that Mark Zuckerberg’s company introduced a protocol that allowed his team members to access Facebook Messenger data even if it had been deleted by a user.