After being 'cancelled' by the tech giant, Antonio Garciá Martínez has finally broken his silence.
On Friday, Martínez was fired "due to protests on the part of some Apple employees, to the point where they started a petition asking that his hiring be investigated." Having worked at Facebook as a project manager for the ad-marketing team, he was hired by Apple to work on ad privacy.
Employees cited "García Marquez's purported views on women and on people of color", as well as the views expressed in his controversial book, Chaos Monkeys.
It was reported that a petition signed by many triggered Apple employees claims that the hiring of Garcí Martínez "calls into question parts of our system of inclusion at Apple, including hiring panels, background checks, and our process to ensure our existing culture of inclusion is strong enough to withstand individuals who don’t share our inclusive values."
In a series of Tweets, García Martínez spoke out about his termination at Apple.
I have thus far maintained my silence on the Apple situation as I've sought to settle things amicably with the company that I admired, and at which I hoped to build the future of ads privacy.
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) May 14, 2021
As they however are not maintaining their silence on the matter, neither will I.
He began by saying that he has remained silence in order to "settle things amicably" with Apple, but that since they have not maintained their silence, he won't either.
1. Apple actively recruited me for my role on the ads team, reaching out via a former colleague to convince me to join. Apple found my experience in the ads space, specifically around data and privacy, highly relevant to their efforts and persuaded me to leave my then role.
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) May 14, 2021
García Martínez pointed out that Apple had actively recruited him.
3. Apple was well aware of my writing before hiring me. My references were questioned extensively about my bestselling book and my real professional persona (rather than literary one).
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) May 14, 2021
This set of prominent Valley VCs and execs are all willing to assert as much under oath.
He then went on to say that he "upended [his] life for Apple", and even "sold [his] WA residence which [he] built with [his] own hands." García Martínez stated that "Apple was well aware of [his] writing before hiring [him].
5. Apple has issued a statement that clearly implies there was some negative behavior by me during my time at Apple. That is defamatory and categorically false.
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) May 14, 2021
He alleged that Apple has issued a statement "implies there was some negative behaviour by [him]" during his time there, calling such actions "defamatory and categorically false."
Author and podcaster Matt Taibbi wrote an article on Substack about those at Apple who got García Martínez fired. "These people aren’t idealists", he said. "They’re just ordinary greedy Americans trying to get ahead, using the tactics available to them, and it’s time to stop thinking of stories like this through any other lens."
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