Meta is Firing About 20 Employees For Leaking 65
Meta has fired "roughly 20" employees who leaked "confidential information outside the company," The Verge reported Thursday, citing the company. From the report: "We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent," Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold tells The Verge. "We recently conducted an investigation that resulted in roughly 20 employees being terminated for sharing confidential information outside the company, and we expect there will be more. We take this seriously, and will continue to take action when we identify leaks."
Meta has ramped up its efforts to find leakers due to a recent influx of stories detailing unannounced product plans and internal meetings, including a recent all-hands led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After we and other outlets reported on what Zuckerberg said during that meeting, employees were warned not to leak.
Meta has ramped up its efforts to find leakers due to a recent influx of stories detailing unannounced product plans and internal meetings, including a recent all-hands led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. After we and other outlets reported on what Zuckerberg said during that meeting, employees were warned not to leak.
Facebook is getting cozy with the current admin (Score:5, Insightful)
This is actual fascism by the way. One of the main features of fascism is the blending of government and corporations. If you've seen those pictures of Elon Musk standing up barking orders at the first White House meeting while everyone sits there listening intently that's exactly what it is.
The fact that they're being so brazen about it means they aren't going to let us vote next election. Or at least they think they aren't. It is still up to us whether we let them but we have to start thinking of ourselves as an us. In other words we have to make sure that people we disagree with are still allowed to vote and that's not something we've been big on the last 40 years.
Mark my words once you start letting politicians pick who their voters are it's not long until you're off their list.
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And that's going to be all sorts of nastiness and backroom deals.
I hear you but there is so much transparency here because corrupt self dealing and criminal collusion is being done live in press conferences on international TV. Either the Republicans never expect another vote again or they are even dumber than anyone thought, even when you took that into consideration.
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Experts say the move would likely violate the law
Who here is shocked that the convicted felon is still breaking the law?
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Crooks gunna crook. Why havent cops gunna cop?
Re: Facebook is getting cozy with the current admi (Score:1, Insightful)
Yes, thank God that never happened under the previous administration!
Re: Facebook is getting cozy with the current admi (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes, thank God that never happened under the previous administration!
Trump's signature move is to falsely accuse his opponents of the crimes he is guilty of, or planning to become guilty of. That way, whenever he commits the crime, his supporters will just say "everybody does it, so it's okay that Trump does it too". It's a pretty standard authoritarian tactic.
DARVO (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:DARVO (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not the pattern of the modern Republican party, it's been a fundamental tenet of conservatism throughout my life. Even as far back as Thatcher, with her famous quote about running out of other people's money. That's exactly what happened: they did a mass giveaway of publicly owned stuff (to the wealthy, ran out of road and left the country holding the bag while somehow gaslighting everyone into thinking that was a left wing failing.
Trump's false accusations. (Score:2)
Trump's signature move is to falsely accuse his opponents of the crimes he is guilty of
As they say, "Every accusation is a confession".
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Yes, thank God that never happened under the previous administration!
Trump's signature move is to falsely accuse his opponents of the crimes he is guilty of, or planning to become guilty of. That way, whenever he commits the crime, his supporters will just say "everybody does it, so it's okay that Trump does it too". It's a pretty standard authoritarian tactic.
Indeed, a pizza joint never seemed like Hillary's style. I'd at lest expect cloth napikins at the place where she'd run her crimes out of.
Re: Facebook is getting cozy with the current adm (Score:2, Insightful)
Yeah I distinctly remember George Soros having an office in the white house and having carte blanche on the federally government.
Oh and your post is classic whataboutism.
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And looking at things today the lesson is Soros should have been doing all that unscrupulous shit he's been accused of.
There still time George Soros, for you to be the man half of America thinks you are.
It didn't (Score:2, Troll)
I would have fucking loved to see the last administration be what you think it is. All this bullshit with tariffs that's going to crash the economy so that they can do a national sales tax wouldn't be happening. We wouldn't be looking at
Re:Facebook is getting cozy with the current admin (Score:5, Interesting)
So I'm sure they just found some randos who had done minor things and fired them to let everyone know that they're watching.
This is actual fascism by the way.
No fascism is not making up some wild conspiracy based on no information other than people were fired and the fact that a company is supporting the current government of the day. We have another word for that: stupid.
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No fascism is not making up some wild conspiracy based on no information other than people were fired and the fact that a company is supporting the current government of the day.
By supporting the current government of the day, you mean supporting after the fascist mango mussolini threatened to jail him for no real reason at all.
Former President Trump is threatening Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg with life in prison.
Trump called in to CNBC to label Facebook an “enemy of the people.”
I don't think quotes confirming trump's fascist wild streak is a consipracy. It turns out, unlike trump's sad speech, it's just the truth.
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By supporting the current government of the day, you mean supporting after the fascist mango mussolini threatened to jail him for no real reason at all.
If that's the government of the day then yes. Companies exist to operate in the society which is governed. The whether cozying up due to coercion or because it could help the bottom line is irrelevant.
I don't think quotes confirming trump's fascist wild streak is a consipracy.
Except that wasn't the quote. Read it again. I agree Trump invokes fascisms, but that's not what the OP said.
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Donald Trump is point for point for point running a fascist playbook. You have Google you can find out what fascism actually is. Donald Trump is definitionally a fascist. If that triggers you I'm sorry Snowflake.
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I really hope you just fed my comment into chat GTP for that response because it doesn't mean anything. Donald Trump is point for point for point running a fascist playbook.
You are 100% correct. Except that's not what you said in the slightest. If that's what you meant then say it so I can agree with you, but as it stands I can only respond to the words you put on the screen. And given you admit you're incapable of understanding mine I really wonder which of us is cosplaying as artificial non-intelligence here.
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I mean for fuck sakes we put somebody with 26 credible raped charges and at least one full-blown conviction who stole classified documents and oversaw the unnecessary deaths of over 300,000 Americans while telling us to shove light bulbs up our asses. What the hell did you think was going to happen?
I mean Jesus fuck where the hell do I begin? He's not going to reduce the defi
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He's a child rapist and he's destroying the country as president of the United States. Forgive me if I'm a little bit uneased.
I thought Biden was the one taking showers with his daughter and hyper-sexualizing her:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch... [snopes.com]
IMHO, he was pretty good at destroying the country as well...
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You sound a bit frustrated. There will always be people who disagree with you, no matter how right your post may be. It's just the way of things.
Incidentally, America has been functioning as an oligarchy for quite a long time. It had been going on long before this [washingtontimes.com] decade-old article was written. Notably: the wealthy elites make all the important decisions regardless of which political party dominates the white house.
Of course that's bad. But just to add perspective, a pure democracy is pretty bad too.
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Democracy is a cute system, with a big fat giant flaw: It needs everyone to be properly educated in what the common rulebook is, why it's important, why it's important to talk to each other without resorting to shouting matches and fisticuffs, and how to (at least try to) solve one problem without creating twelve new ones in the process.
Especially that last one is a problem. Classic example is the money printer going brrr. Like in Weimar Germany. Anyone who paid attention in history class, knows how well
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You really need to let your state appointed guardian know about your delusions before you harm yourself.
Good (Score:4, Insightful)
Good, not sure why people think it's ok to leak data. It's one thing if it's a whistle blower type thing that is done through the proper channels.. quite another if it's just someone who disagrees or likes to feel like they are getting one over on the company.
It would be awesome if META made them repay stocks and bonuses as well.
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Could be related to this 4 weeks ago "'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio" https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
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My guess is a whole lot more is going to leak in the near future.
If the 20 people were 100% the leakers, and are generally not well liked, then they might be okay. However, if any of them actually have any friends, or if any of them didn't leak anything, then this will turn into a shit show. The leakers will leak more, more will get fired, and so it goes around and around. When people are leaving the building, they'll be shouting about the stuff they know that shouldn't be "leaked".
FB is imploding - it'll t
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It's one thing if it's a whistle blower type thing that is done through the proper channels..
The convicted felon is trying to fire the person [thehill.com] who handles this for federal employees.
Re:Good (Score:4, Insightful)
Proper channels for whistleblowing often lead to the whistle not being blown and the employee losing employment.
If you have to tell the world that your employer is doing bad things, do not ask the company how to do it.
And if they didn't hoover up so much data (Score:5, Insightful)
There wouldn't be a need to leak, so whose problem is that?
It's ours. Good god Facebook/Meta is horrifying and should be burned to the ground without prejudice, its ashes spread to the wind, and every person with knowledge of how it worked its horrors should be rounded up and dropped on a particularly remote uninhabited island in the south Atlantic.
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Sounds fair to me. (Score:3)
If you're an immature and/or self-righteous individual who doesn't know where the line of professionalism and company unity lies, who bites the hand that feeds them, then you should absolutely be fired.
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Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine.
He should have been watching the news in 2022. This Fox news reporter was all over it [twimg.com]
Good thing DEI ended and people can be appointed on merit instead LOL
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Whistleblowers deserve protection
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Whistleblowers - sure. People who leak information and cause damage for either pleasure of personal reasons? Absolutely not.
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who doesn't know where the line of professionalism and company unity lies, who bites the hand that feeds them
Employment works as an equal contract between employer and employee. It isn't "the hand that feeds you," the company is getting something equal in return.
As for company loyalty, Meta is a company that deserves no loyalty because they will never give you loyalty. It's just business, and the sooner you learn it, the happier you'll be.
"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both" -- Milton
"Employees fired for breaching contacts" (Score:1)
Why is this news?
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They only found 20.
Poor Facebook. They really want to be cool like Apple but nobody really gives a shit that they're working on a new like button or Quest 4 or whatever.
Strategy (Score:2)
I've heard meta has paid people to pretend to be media journalist and approach other meta employees for information.
It's Meta's business model to leak private data (Score:2)
So when employees do it with Meta's private data, they are competing with their employer, an that's a no-no.
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The difference is you consented to the leaking, Meta on the other hand expressly forbid it. God do people not read the 1000 page terms of service or employment contracts anymore!
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Right!
Not even reading, just posting (Score:2)
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rsilvergun is that you? Go take your meds.
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DOGE is hiring (Score:2)
If you've recently been fired for leaking data and could use a job call 1-202-555-DOGE, ask for big balls.