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Apple Punished Employee for Approving App That Was Critical of Beijing, Lawsuit Alleges

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Apple Punished Employee for Approving App That Was Critical of Beijing, Lawsuit Alleges
Customers line up to get their reserved iPhone 12 mobile phones at an Apple store in Shanghai on Oct. 23, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Cathy He
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A former Apple employee alleges in a lawsuit that the company punished him for approving an app critical of the Chinese regime, in order to appease Beijing authorities.

The allegations were made by Trieu Pham, a former app reviewer for the tech giant, in a discrimination and wrongful termination suit filed at the Santa Clara, California, Superior Court in December 2019.

Cathy He
Cathy He
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Cathy He is the politics editor at the Washington D.C. bureau. She was previously an editor for U.S.-China and a reporter covering U.S.-China relations.
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