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• @parkermolloy Parker Molloy on threads

  The dominoes continue to fall

• @ericcolumbus Eric Columbus on x

  And if I'm reading Roy's note correctly (others with more info please chime in) the Civil Rights Team at Meta is being dismantled and (some?) members of the team are being reassigned to other Meta offices. (Unless he's just noting something that happened at an earlier date?) 2/2

• @ericcolumbus Eric Columbus on x

  BREAKING: Roy Austin, Meta's Vice President of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, just announced his resignation and posted a note on LinkedIn. Roy is a former Obama DOJ colleague; although his announcement note is very civil, the timing doesn't seem coincidental. 1/2 [imag…

• @mikeisaac Rat King on x

  Austin remains pretty buttoned up on why he's leaving but i would imagine the timing and reasoning isn't out of nowhere

• @inafried Ina Fried on x

  Confirmed as well. Austin, a long time civil rights leader, headed a small team dedicated to civil rights including housing and employment ads. Here's our story from when the team was founded. https://www.axios.com/...

• @swumintheocean @swumintheocean on x

  @MikeIsaac is there literally one word of explanation as to why he's leaving and i missed it? this is the statement equivalent of an empty glass

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Straw meet camel.