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Former Shopify employees say a noose emoji was discovered in their Slack system last summer.
The emoji, plus a video that some felt was in poor taste, caused heated debate among workers.
As the debate intensified, CEO Tobi Lütke changed a diversity-focused channel to be read-only.
Shopify, the Ottawa-based e-commerce platform known for the tools it offers to entrepreneurs and small-business owners, has dealt with some internal strife over its handling of racial and social-justice issues over the past year, former employees say.
Six former employees, some of whom left as recently as this spring, told Insider they felt that tensions came to a head in July, when they say another employee brought to people s attention that an emoji depicting a noose had been added to Shopify s