Apple Says Author Hired in Ads Business Has Left Company Following Petition

Apple on Wednesday stated Antonio García-Martínez, a former Facebook product supervisor who joined Apple lately to work in its promoting enterprise, is now not with the corporate.

García-Martínez, who got here to Silicon Valley after a stint on Wall Street, wrote the 2016 e-book Chaos Monkeys about his time within the know-how business. He joined Apple as a product engineer in Apple’s promoting platform enterprise in April, in line with his LinkedIn page.

Technology information publication The Verge reported on Wednesday that greater than 2,000 Apple workers had signed an inside petition despatched to the corporate’s leaders with considerations about what the petition writers described as sexist and racist views within the e-book and whether or not Apple had adopted its personal guidelines in hiring García-Martínez.

Apple stated García-Martínez is now not on the firm however gave no additional particulars.

“At Apple, we have always strived to create an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone is respected and accepted. Behaviour that demeans or discriminates against people for who they are has no place here,” the corporate stated in a press release.

García-Martínez didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark outdoors regular enterprise hours.
 

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