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More than 250 New York Times employees planned a virtual walkout over controversial Tom Cotton op-ed. Read their note to executives.

a Twitter thread by opinion writer Bari Weiss that characterized disagreements over the op-ed as a generational "civil war." he had not read the op-ed before it was published.The paper will hold a town hall for employees to address concerns raised by the piece

We thank our colleagues working on Publishing tools whose sick-out action on Thursday inspired our action for Friday. Yesterday, AG spoke to a standard that the Times applies when deciding whether to publish an Op-Ed, requiring that it be an "accurate, good-faith exploration of the issues of the day." In this, our publisher acknowledges that the Times implicitly confers some level of legitimacy to an Op-Ed simply by choosing to publish it.

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