Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has since said the Bosworth memo was “one that most people at Facebook including myself disagreed with strongly,” describing his longtime deputy as a “talented leader who says many trusted things.”
Bosworth, a vice president at Facebook who’s known as Boz, wrote in June 2016, that hacking on face book for the improvement of company is good but in case of terrorism of Leaking of data we will not bear it.
“Dozens of employees criticized the unknown leakers at the company. ‘Leakers, please resign instead of sabotaging the company,’ one wrote in a comment under Bosworth’s post. Wrote another: ‘How fucking terrible that some irresponsible jerk decided he or she had some god complex that jeopardizes our inner culture and something that makes Facebook great?'”
Here’s where the discussion gets conspiratorial:
“Another theory floated by multiple employees is that Facebook has been targeted by spies or state-level actors hoping to embarrass the company. ‘Keep in mind that leakers could be intentionally placed bad actors, not just employees making a one-off bad decision,’ one wrote. ‘Thinking adversarially, if I wanted info from Facebook, the easiest path would be to get people hired into low-level employee or contract roles.’ Another wrote: ‘Imagine that some percentage of leakers are spies for governments. A call to morals or problems of performance would be irrelevant in this case, because dissolution is the intent of those actors. If that’s our threat — and maybe it is, given the current political situation? — then is it even possible to build a system that defaults to open, but that is able to resist these bad actors (or do we need to redesign the system?)'”
It’s hard to tell how most Facebook employees — not just the loudest — feel about Bosworth’s positions, and it’s possible that these threads were taken out of context. That’s Bosworth’s explanation for what was said in the memo, which BuzzFeed published in full.
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