Mark Zuckerberg Fires 20 Meta Employees for Leaking Company Information

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed 20 employees for leaking internal company information to the media, just weeks after private discussions from internal meetings surfaced in news reports.

“We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,” a Meta spokesperson confirmed, adding, “We recently conducted an investigation that resulted in roughly 20 employees being terminated for sharing confidential information outside the company, and we expect there will be more.”

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has faced internal dissent since Zuckerberg implemented policies that critics claim align with the new Trump administration. These include scrapping diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and scaling back fact-checking in favor of community notes similar to those on X.

Frustrated by the frequent leaks, Zuckerberg warned employees that he would withhold certain information. “We try to be really open, and then everything I say leaks. It sucks,” he reportedly said in a meeting first covered by The Verge. Ironically, his remarks were then leaked, prompting Meta to issue a company-wide memo warning that leaking information could result in termination.

Meta’s Chief Information Security Officer, Guy Rosen, emphasized the broader impact of leaks in a memo obtained by the New York Post. “When information is stolen or leaked, there are repercussions beyond the immediate security impact. Our teams become demoralized, and we all waste time that is better spent working on our products and toward our goals and mission.”

Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth later noted that Meta was “making progress on catching people” responsible for leaks—comments that, once again, were leaked to the media.