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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 01, 2018, 01:35:52 pm

Title: Fired for Liking a Tweet on Tibet, US Worker Feels China’s Reach
Post by: TomSea on April 01, 2018, 01:35:52 pm

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Fired for Liking a Tweet on Tibet, US Worker Feels China’s Reach

WASHINGTON —

In early January, Roy Jones was making $14 an hour, $5 above Nebraska’s minimum wage as a representative dealing with customers on social media for Marriott International Group, the international hotelier.

For Jones, a 49-year-old Omaha resident, it was a dream job despite the bot-generated tweets that flowed unceasingly onto what he described as the company’s Tweetdeck-like interface January 9. Sometimes there were “more than 3,000 tweets in front of me, I’m just processing them,” Jones told VOA Mandarin earlier this week.

On what Jones called a hectic shift, there was a tweet from Friends of Tibet, a pro-Tibetan independence organization, congratulating Marriott for recognizing Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan as countries.

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Read more at: https://www.voanews.com/a/fired-for-liking-a-tweet-tibet-us-worker-feels-chinas-reach/4325196.html (https://www.voanews.com/a/fired-for-liking-a-tweet-tibet-us-worker-feels-chinas-reach/4325196.html)