Mark Zuckerberg sacks 20 Meta employees for leaking information to media

The founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has sacked 20 Meta employees for “leaking confidential information outside the company”, according to a report in The Verge, citing a company spokesperson.

In an official statement in The Verge, Dave Arnold, Meta spokesperson, said that “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”.

“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,” as Dave Arnold added.

Over the past few months, Meta has deliberately attempted to stem leaks as it implemented comprehensive policy changes, including the formal dissolution of company-wide DEI programmes and the elimination of content moderation on its social media platforms. The systematic approaches of the company to tighten internal controls appear to be particularly focused on preventing details of these changes from becoming public.

Mark Zuckerberg has increased his business suggestions towards Trump, who last summer was confronted with uncertainty by the visionary businessperson with life imprisonment after Meta deprived the president of access to Facebook in January 2021 for paving the way for the assault on the Capitol.

The CEO and founder have dined with the Republican on several occasions, contributed to the president’s inauguration fund, eased up on content evaluation and moderation protocols, and ended Facebook’s US independent fact-check initiative in an effort to draw closer to the new Republican leadership in Washington.

During the Joe Rogan podcast, Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns that “a lot of the corporate world is pretty culturally neutered because masculine energy is good”. These current firings rise to the top of the 4,000 workers who were laid off prior to the current situation this month and were classified as ‘inefficient performers.’

Zuckerberg said he is awaiting a response on an ‘intense year‘ forward as Meta engages in a rivalry with rivals to bring up advanced products of artificial intelligence (AI) and provides a clear indication about how the company would employ new workers to replace the employees who have been dismissed from service.