Saturday, March 31, 2018

Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today's leaked memo

An internal post reacting to the memo found employees angry and heartbroken that their teammates were sharing internal company discussions with the media.

Nearly 3,000 employees had reacted to Bosworth's memo when The Verge viewed it, responding with a mixture of likes, "sad," and and "angry" reactions.

Several employees suggested Facebook attempt to screen employees for a high degree of "integrity" during the hiring process.

" Another theory floated by multiple employees is that Facebook has been targeted by spies or state-level actors hoping to embarrass the company.

"It's interesting to note that this discussion is about leaks pushing us to be more cognizant of our sharing decisions. The result is that we are incentivized toward stricter audience management and awareness of how our past internal posts may look when re-surfaced today. We blame a few ill-intentioned employees for this change."The non-employee Facebook user base is also experiencing a similar shift: the move toward ephemeral and direct sharing results from realizing that social media posts that were shared broadly and are searchable forever can become a huge liability today.

A key difference between the outside discussion and the internal discussion is that the outside blames the Facebook product for nudging people to make those broad sharing decisions years ago, whereas internally the focus is entirely on employees.

For his part, Bosworth promised employees he would continue sharing candid thoughts about Facebook, but said he would likely post less.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/30/17179100/facebook-memo-leaks-boz-andrew-bosworth 

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