Meta Fires Around 20 Employees for Disclosing Confidential Information

Fierce competition in the IT sector is forcing companies to take a tough approach to protecting their commercial interests. The Verge reports that American Meta✴ Platforms has already fired 20 employees for disclosing confidential information and may conduct additional staff purges following an ongoing investigation.

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«We recently conducted an investigation that resulted in the termination of 20 employees for sharing confidential information with third parties. We expect additional employees to be terminated. We take this seriously and take action when we discover breaches,” the company said in a statement.

In late January, it became known that Meta✴ management was forced to conduct an internal investigation due to the increasing number of leaks of information about employee meetings where confidential issues were discussed. Based on these leaks, news materials were published that received wide publicity. Since this was detrimental to the company’s business, management was forced to strengthen security measures and revise the meeting format. The founder and head of the company, Mark Zuckerberg, admitted that because of this whole story, he would not be as frank with colleagues as before.