A former Facebook employee is accusing Meta Platforms of ‘whistleblower retaliation,’ claiming he was unlawfully fired in 2019 after raising concerns over a 'new protocol.'
Brennan Lawson filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, claiming he was terminated after questioning a ‘protocol’ that allowed him and his team to retrieve deleted messages in Messenger.
A Meta spokesperson told DailyMail.com: 'These claims are without merit and we will defend ourselves against them vigorously.’
Lawson, who allegedly worked as a Senior Risk & Response Escalations, said ‘a Facebook manager introduced a new tool to the Escalations team’ in late 2018,’ according to the lawsuit seen by DailyMail.com.
‘The protocol was presented by Ashley McHugh, who built the back-end protocol that the team would start utilizing to access deleted user data.’
The document explains that one example of use was to provide law enforcement with deleted messages of specific users.
‘Law enforcement would ask questions about the suspect’s use of the platform, such as who the suspect was messaging, when messages were sent, and even what those messages contained,’ reads the suit.
‘To keep Facebook in the good graces of the government, the Escalations Team would utilize the back-end protocol to provide answers for the law enforcement agency and then determine how much to share.’
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