Mark Zuckerberg is Doing This to Catch Leakers on Facebook

One thing many companies do not approve of is their employees leaking information to the press.

Facebook is one of these companies and apparently its CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doing something to handle it.

It was last year that an un-dentified employee at Facebook went into a meeting thinking he would get a promotion and instead found himself answering to the company’s investigative team who had proof he had been leaking to the press.

Zuckerberg is deploying a “secret police” to catch leakers within his company according to a report in The Guardian on Friday that cited a person who worked at the social media giant.

“It’s horrifying how much they know,” the employee said to The Guardian. “You go into Facebook and it has this warm, fuzzy feeling of ‘we’re changing the world’ and ‘we care about things’. But you get on their bad side and all of a sudden you are face to face with [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg’s secret police.”

The team is being head by Sonya Ahuja.

“When you first get to Facebook you are shocked at the level of transparency. You are trusted with a lot of stuff you don’t need access to,” the employee said. “The counterbalance to giving you this huge trusting environment is if anyone steps out of line, they’ll squash you like a bug.”

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