ToplineSocial media company Hootsuite said Thursday it will no longer do business with U.S. immigration authorities after an employee tweeted that the Vancouver-based firm signed a contract with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement this week, despite internal protests. HootsuiteKey FactsSam Anderson, a senior training specialist at Hootsuite, tweeted Wednesday that Hootsuite, a social media marketing platform, signed a three-year deal with ICE over the opposition of more than 100 employees, revealing for the first time that Hootsuite was working with the vastly unpopular agency. Anderson’s Twitter thread garnered considerable pushback with 7,300 retweets and 19,700 likes and calls from social media managers to stop using Hootsuite entirely. Key BackgroundTech workers at companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Github and Wayfair have urged their employers to stop doing business with ICE. Internal protests gained steam in 2018 after President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy caused family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Source: Forbes September 24, 2020 18:45 UTC