{"id":15136,"date":"2018-03-20T17:24:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=15136"},"modified":"2018-03-20T17:24:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:24:32","slug":"facebook-security-chief-is-reportedly-leaving-over-misinformation-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2018\/03\/20\/facebook-security-chief-is-reportedly-leaving-over-misinformation-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook security chief is reportedly leaving over misinformation dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s struggle to deal with Russian manipulation campaigns has produced a casualty among its upper ranks.<span id=\"more-415461\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has learned that chief information security officer Alex Stamos is expected to leave Facebook in August after butting heads with other executives (including COO Sheryl Sandberg) over the company\u2019s approach to Russian influence campaigns. He had pushed for investigations and disclosures, sources said, much to the \u201cconsternation\u201d of top staff.<\/p>\n<p>Stamos said he planned to leave in December after his duties were assigned to others, according to tipsters, but Facebook convinced him to stay for several months both to ease the transition and to preserve the social network\u2019s image. It would \u201clook bad\u201d for him to leave, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve asked Facebook for comment and will let you know if it can confirm or deny the move.<\/p>\n<p>If accurate, the departure reveals high-level tension at Facebook over its approach to Russian meddling and other misinformation campaigns \u2014 it shows that some executives might not have wanted to verify the extent of the campaigns or notify users to the degree it has so far. The news certainly comes at a bad time, following right after word that Cambridge Analytica had collected the data of 50 million Facebook users without consent (and that Facebook may have sat on its knowledge of this since 2015). If Facebook really did time Stamos\u2019 exit to minimize uproar, it\u2019s having the opposite effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0In a Twitter post, Stamos confirmed that his \u201crole did change,\u201d but that he\u2019s also still \u201cfully engaged\u201d with work at Facebook. He didn\u2019t definitively say whether or not he was leaving, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&rsquo;s struggle to deal with Russian manipulation campaigns has produced a casualty among its upper ranks. The New York Times has learned that chief information security officer Alex Stamos is expected to leave Facebook in August after butting heads with other executives (including COO Sheryl Sandberg) over the company&rsquo;s approach to Russian influence campaigns. He had pushed for investigations and disclosures, sources said, much to the &ldquo;consternation&rdquo; of top staff. Stamos said he planned to leave in December after his duties were assigned to others, according to tipsters, but Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15138,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15136\/revisions\/15138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}