Apple said on Wednesday that Antonio García Martínez, a former
Facebook Inc product manager who joined its advertising business
in April, was no longer with the company. The iPhone maker made
the move after more than 2,000 Apple employees signed an
internal petition objecting to what they denounced as sexist and
racist views in his 2016 book "Chaos Monkeys" about working in
Silicon Valley.
Announcing his departure, Apple said it strived to create an
inclusive, welcoming workplace and that "behavior that demeans
or discriminates against people for who they are has no place
here."
On Twitter on Friday, García Martínez said Apple had been well
aware of his writing and had interviewed references he provided
to the company about the differences between his professional
and literary personas.
"I did not 'part ways' with Apple. I was fired by Apple in a
snap decision," García Martínez said on Twitter. "Apple has
issued a statement that clearly implies there was some negative
behavior by me during my time at Apple. That is defamatory and
categorically false."
Apple did not immediately return a request for comment on García
Martínez's posts.
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Daniel
Wallis)
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