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Who really gets fired over social media posts? We studied hundreds of cases to find out

  • Written by Brady Robards, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Monash University
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What you say and do on social media can affect your employment; it can prevent you from getting hired, stall career progression and may even get you fired. Is this fair – or an invasion of privacy?

Our recent research involved a study of 312 news articles about people who had been fired because of a social media post.

These...

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