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Disclaimer: I have no opinion whatsoever about what this guy did or didn't tweet, or whatever the reason may be that he's no longer at Facebook.

That being said, WOW that's some crap reporting: the only source mentioned in the article is what the guy himself wrote on Twitter. From the bottom: "Facebook and Dail did not immediately respond to requests for comment."

Reuters chose to spin that into "Facebook fires employee who..." Come on, a Journalism 101 teacher would go nuts over a student who wrote that headline with no credible sources.

>>packet+(OP)
edit: <nevermind, they changed it back>

>>packet+(OP)
i read articles bottom-up for this reason – you'll find whatever shred of facts to be found there.

>>packet+(OP)
Disappointing indeed. I had thought that the "wire services" like AP and Reuters largely stayed out editorializing but it seems not. I understand that framing will always come into play and that completely neutral "just the facts" is an elusive ideal, but still this example is really egregious.