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A Facebook employee asked a reporter to turn off his phone so Facebook couldn't track its location — and it reveals a bigger problem within the company
February 12, 2018 at 17:33
* Facebook protects itself against leaks by tracking down the leakers and firing them.
* One Facebook employee who anonymously spoke with Wired recently asked the reporter to turn off his phone so the company couldn't track their location.
* One Facebook employee who anonymously spoke with Wired recently asked the reporter to turn off his phone so the company couldn't track their location.
To corporate giants like Facebook, leaks to rivals or the media are a cardinal sin.
That notion was clear in a new Wired story about Facebook's rocky time over the past two years. The story talks about how Facebook was able to find two leakers who told a Gizmodo reporter about its news operations.
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