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highplainsdem

(58,364 posts) Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:55 PM Sep 21

US firms monitor employees' social media after Charlie Kirk killing

Source: The Times (UK)

Bosses in America are increasingly policing employees’ social media posts to see if they could cause reputational damage to their businesses, the head of country’s biggest human resources association has said.

Johnny C Taylor Jr, president and chief executive of the Society for Human Resource Management, told The Times he attended a meeting with dozens of Fortune 200 companies last week where chief HR officers said their companies were “actively and increasingly monitoring employees’ activity”, including by using generative AI tools.

Employees’ online activity, even when they don’t mention the name of their employer, has become a focus point for boardrooms in the aftermath of the killing of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Workers have been suspended or fired for social media posts about Kirk’s death at companies including Nasdaq, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and The Carolina Panthers, a professional American football team.

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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/us/business/article/us-firms-monitor-employees-social-media-charlie-kirk-killing-v6tr3ls3g

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US firms monitor employees' social media after Charlie Kirk killing (Original Post) highplainsdem Sep 21 OP

The Corporatocracy wants in on that fascist action apparently. NoMoreRepugs Sep 21 #1

Reputational damage????? BettyBlueDot Sep 21 #2

It's not very far down that slippery slope to corporate dobleremolque Sep 21 #3

I emailed a company Puppyjive Sep 21 #4

I've removed my employer from my profile maxsolomon Sep 22 #5

I work for one of the big 5 banks up here. EllieBC Sep 22 #6

NoMoreRepugs

(11,638 posts)

1. The Corporatocracy wants in on that fascist action apparently.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:29 PM

Sep 21

BettyBlueDot

(7 posts)

2. Reputational damage?????

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:49 PM

Sep 21

Just who do these companies think are their customers? Seems to me they are damaging their reputations by fawning over magat snowflakes. Normal decent Americans, the actual majority are not wringing their hands over Kirk posts.

dobleremolque

(1,061 posts)

3. It's not very far down that slippery slope to corporate

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 05:01 PM

Sep 21

monitoring of employee "inappropriate" political activity and "corporately embarrassing" political affiliation.

Puppyjive

(849 posts)

4. I emailed a company

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:38 PM

Sep 21

This guy (maga) did not like my fb post and called me every disgusting thing you could think of. I asked him if his employer knew how vulgar he was? Clearly he hates women. It wasn't hard to figure out who he was employed by. I emailed them and never heard from the man again.

maxsolomon

(37,426 posts)

5. I've removed my employer from my profile

Reply to Puppyjive (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:43 PM

Sep 22

They DGAF what I say but still...

EllieBC

(3,563 posts)

6. I work for one of the big 5 banks up here.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:40 PM

Sep 22

Every six months, we have to sign an attestation that we understand and agree to the ethics and social media rules. And that includes not fighting over political issues, even if you do not have anything that connects the bank to who you are online.

And yes, they have fired people before. Obviously the really easy way around that is to be totally fucking anonymous and not have anything that links who you actually are to your social media profile but I guess people haven’t figured that out yet.

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