Zuckerberg takes strict action for leaking internal news, fires 20 employees

Meta dismisses employees: The parent company Meta has dismissed 20 employees over breach of company confidentiality policies. This step was taken after an investigation which revealed that certain people had leaked information regarding non publicized product strategies and internal proceedings. For a long time now, Meta has had a very strict none collar policy and has been cautioning employees about sharing sensitive information, which, during any circumstance, is against the firm’s policies. Other officials such as company CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth have also not been pleased with the violation of sensitive data. Bosworth stated that our capabilities to identify these culprits is getting better by the day.

Meta's internal news has been leaking over the last few months

American technology news site The Verge made mention of it, saying that head of Meta communications, Dave Arnold, disclosed, “They had their fair share of investigations in which around 20 employees got let go. Those employee leaves possessed Meta’s sensitive information that got divulged outside of the company. More steps would be followed in due time.” 

It should be noted that Meta has suffered quite a number of information leakages in the last couple of months. This includes pieces pertaining to some of the meetings that the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg held.

Mark Zuckerberg held an all-hands meeting recently and spoke to the employees, but its details were shared with the press. After this, the company decided to take corrective measures.  
  
Meta did not explain how the workers were apprehended.  
  
As the New York Post writes, Meta did not disclose how the employees who were charged were pinpointed and from which department were they sourced. Later on, Meta Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth said that the firm is getting closer to “catching the leakers,” to which this whole statement of his was also leaked, surprisingly.  
  
This set of job cuts adds to the 4,000 employees that were laid off earlier in the month as a result of being classed as “low performers.” This cut accounted for about five percent of the total headcount in the business.  
  
Meta’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg indicated that next year is going to be difficult for the firm as it tries to contend against its competitors in AI. He also showed that he will hiring new staff to replace those sacked.