Meta is Firing About 20 Employees For Leaking
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/27/199236/meta-is-firing-about-20-employees-for-leaking
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> "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."
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> Meta has ramped up its efforts to find leakers due to a recent influx of stories detailing unannounced product plans and internal meetings, including [1]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.
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/0349214/everything-i-say-leaks-zuckerberg-says-in-leaked-meeting-audio
Good (Score:3)
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" [1]https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/0349214/everything-i-say-leaks-zuckerberg-says-in-leaked-meeting-audio
And if they didn't hoover up so much data (Score:3)
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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I mean, if you burned it down with prejudice then if it came back you couldn’t burn it down again so that makes sense
Sounds fair to me. (Score:2)
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.
Re: Sounds fair to me. (Score:2)
What a whacky outlook on things, a serf's mindset.
"Employees fired for breaching contacts" (Score:2)
Why is this news?
Facebook is getting cozy with the current admin (Score:3, Interesting)
And that's going to be all sorts of nastiness and backroom deals. 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. 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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No, they expect to not have to vote again. Read the room.
Re: Facebook is getting cozy with the current admi (Score:2)
Yes, thank God that never happened under the previous administration!
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> 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.