Apple hires, then fires controversial ex-Facebook employee

After a petition circulated inside Apple yesterday calling for “an investigation” into the recent hiring of Antonio García Martínez as an ad engineer, Apple responded in a decisive way: Martínez no longer works there.The backlash was mainly centered around Martínez’s Silicon Valley tell-all book, “Chaos Monkey,” which was published in 2016. The book, which Martínez describes as written in “total Hunter S. Thompson/Gonzo mode,