Facebook staff are angry about a memo that was leaked; stating cyberbullying suicides and terrorism were justifiable side effects of Facebooks continued growth, written by Vice President Andrew Bosworth. The concern over the companys Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal has now apparently transformed into a sort of panic of potentially damaging internal information like Bosworths memo.
But the fallout at the Silicon Valley company has been wide. According to two Facebook employees, workers have been calling on internal message boards for a hunt to find those who leak to the media. Some have questioned whether Facebook has been transparent enough with its users and with journalists, said the employees, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. Many are also concerned over what might leak next and are deleting old comments or messages that might come across as controversial or newsworthy, they said
After the leak the of the memo, Bosworth deleted his original post. “While I won’t go quite as far as to call it a straw man, that post was definitely designed to provoke a response,” Bosworth wrote
“Everybody at Facebook in the first year gets immunized with stories about Facebook – or they quit,” one former Facebook employee told News. “But there are lots of people irked about Facebook’s silence. They want Mark to go on TV.”
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