George Hayward not related to me, but good thread
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RT @doctorow
When George Hayward was a Facebook data-scientist, his bosses ordered him to run a #NegativeTest, updating Messenger to deliberately drain users' batteries to determine how power-hungry various options were. Hayward refused. FB fired him. He sued:

https://nypost.com/2023/01/28/facebook-fires-worker-who-refused-to-do-negative-testing-awsuit/ 1/
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1622334469007867904

Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit

The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features or issues such as…

New York Post