By John Glenday

The Washington Post has unveiled a draconian new social media policy which threatens the ultimate sanction against any employee found to be bad mouthing advertisers on social media.

The new policy covers any activity deemed to ‘adversely affects The Post’s customers, advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners’, with anyone falling foul of the rule potentially facing the sack.

Cases would be judged on an individual basis by the Post’s management with the full spectrum of disciplinary sanctions on the table ‘up to and including termination of employment’.

These rules have reportedly been in place since 1 May and are Read full story ›

Source: The Drum