Ex-Meta employee sues for wrongful termination over handling of pro-Palestinian content

An ex-Meta engineer has sued the company for wrongful termination and claimed he was discriminated against for his Palestinian-American heritage and Muslim faith.

In a complaint filed Tuesday in California state court in Santa Clara, Ferras Hamad states he was employed as a software engineer for Meta. His duties included assessing the quality of Instagram integrity filters related to Gaza, Israel and Ukraine, according to the complaint. He would also investigate “severe issues,” internally called SEVs, which ranged from Facebook or Instagram going down to users complaining that their posts were curbed or