A worker on a data center project for Facebook parent company Meta in Utah was fired after admitting to tying a noose at the worksite where racist graffiti had also been found months earlier.
The graffiti, written on a portable toilet in November, had threatened a “kill a [racial slur] day.” Both incidents prompted contractor M.A. Mortenson Co. to temporarily halt work at the Eagle Mountain site. It had offered a $100,000 reward for information to help identify the person responsible for the noose.