Stamos Alex (Alex Stamos)

Stamos Alex (Alex Stamos)

2018: Dismissal from Facebook because of unwillingness to extend misinformation

In March, 2018 it became known of dismissal of the Chief information security officer (cybersecurity) of Facebook Alex Stamos because of disagreement with the policy of the company concerning distribution of misinformation.

Stamos will leave the company after internal disagreements on the subject of how the social network should arrive in connection with what role she played in distribution of misinformation — the The New York Times newspaper with reference to several employees of Facebook writes.

According to them, Alex Stamos supported "disclosure of the Russian activity in Facebook" that caused concern among other top managers. He required  to open data on how Russian authorities allegedly tried to influence the American voters by means of political advertizing.

Besides, the cybersecurity director planned reorganization of the division more effectively to resist to abuses. Stamos wanted to leave quickly, but the management persuaded him to work half a year more to submit the cases to the successor.

Stamos will remain in Facebook till August, 2018. At the same time "day duties" are transferred to other employees in December the 2017th.

Stamos  wrote  on the Twitter blog that it "is still completely busy in  Facebook". He specified that its role in the company changed and now he "finds more time for studying of risks of security and work on security of elections". The company refrained from comments.

Earlier in Facebook learned about date leak more than 50 million users of social network who are brought together by means of the application for polls by Cambridge Analytica analytical company for drawing up psychological portraits of voters of the USA. 

Alex Stamos said on Twitter blog that the people solving such problems in the company should do it publicly and not assume that personal beliefs prevailed over responsibility to employees and clients.^[1]

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