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Facebook employees are turning on boss Mark Zuckerberg, it was reported last night, as British MPs leaked a trove of documents then accused the company of spying on users' calls and texts and api gateway signing secret deals to give access to their data.
Former workers described a 'toxic and hostile' atmosphere at the social media giant which has suffered a torrid few years battling data scandals and fake news.
Amid the anger, Zuckerberg was forced to defend himself on Wednesday night, saying in a lengthy Facebook post that the company 'never sold anyone's data'.
He also denied allegations by Damian Collins, the British MP who leaked the documents, that changes Facebook made to its platform in 2015 were designed to extract money from developers in return for access to data.
April 2018: Zuckerberg before a senate committee to testify after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica
He wrote: 'We've focused on preventing abusive apps for years, and that was the main purpose of this major platform change starting in 2014.
'In fact, this was the change required to prevent the situation with Cambridge Analytica.
'While we made this change several years ago, if we had only done it a year sooner we could have prevented that situation completely.'
Despite his comments, one former senior employee told that workers are desperate for a change of leadership.
'People are hoping for a Sundar or Dara moment,' the worker said referring to Uber's new boss Dara Khosrowshahi and Google's chief Sundar Pichai.
Another said staff fear being scolded by furious bosses who are 'spouting full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook.'
The source revealed: 'People now have burner phones to talk shit about the company - not even to reporters, just to other employees.'
Damian Collins, the chairman of Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, published secret Facebook documents
They said staff are at rock bottom, adding: 'It's the bunker mentality.
These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They're getting tired, getting cranky - the only survival strategy is to quit or fully buy in.'
A Facebook spokesman last night admitted: 'This a challenging time.'
The reports pile even more pressure on Mr Zuckerberg as MP Damian Collins, who is leading an investigation into fake news, yesterday published a 250-page document containing secret emails and private messages between Facebook staff.
It revealed Facebook signed deals to give companies such as Netflix and AirBnB special access to user dater and spied on Android users' calls and texts.
Facebook stock has plunged in recent months and is set to take a beating when the New York Stock Exchange opens Thursday morning after a hiatus for George H.W.
Bush's funeral.
Mr Collins used parliamentary privilege to seize the documents - which had been made secret by a US judge - from the founder of US app developer Six4Three, Ted Kramer, who had them as part of a legal case against Facebook.
In an extraordinary move when Mr Kramer was passing through London in November, Mr Collins had him escorted to Parliament and threatened to imprison him if he didn't hand them over.
The documents reveal:
Facebook programmed its android app to see users call and text records in which it admitted was a 'pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective'Facebook aggressively stopped rivals from accessing its users' data to maintain dominance, causing many apps to failCEO Mark Zuckerberg personally approved a decision to block Twitter's app Vine from accessing users' Facebook friends lists Mr Zuckerberg said he was 'sceptical' that apps with access Facebook users' data would pass data on, as then happened in the Cambridge Analytica scandalFacebook used Onavo app it acquired to spy on users' phone usage, apparently without their knowledge, to identify competitors such as Whatsapp to buy outThe messages discuss changes that Facebook made to its site in 2015 which limited apps' access to users' Facebook friends.
The app ThisIsYourDigitalLife exploited this feature to get information from millions of Facebook profiles despite only having around 300,000 direct users, which it later sold to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
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In emails sent ahead of the changes being implemented, Facebook senior staff discussed 'whitelisting' several apps - including Lyft, Tinder, and AirBnB - meaning they would keep full access to friend data.
One employee proposed only letting companies who pay a certain amount have access.
Former workers described a 'toxic and hostile' atmosphere at the social media giant which has suffered a torrid few years battling data scandals and fake news.
Amid the anger, Zuckerberg was forced to defend himself on Wednesday night, saying in a lengthy Facebook post that the company 'never sold anyone's data'.
He also denied allegations by Damian Collins, the British MP who leaked the documents, that changes Facebook made to its platform in 2015 were designed to extract money from developers in return for access to data.
April 2018: Zuckerberg before a senate committee to testify after it was reported that 87 million Facebook users had their personal information harvested by Cambridge Analytica
He wrote: 'We've focused on preventing abusive apps for years, and that was the main purpose of this major platform change starting in 2014.
'In fact, this was the change required to prevent the situation with Cambridge Analytica.
'While we made this change several years ago, if we had only done it a year sooner we could have prevented that situation completely.'
Despite his comments, one former senior employee told that workers are desperate for a change of leadership.
'People are hoping for a Sundar or Dara moment,' the worker said referring to Uber's new boss Dara Khosrowshahi and Google's chief Sundar Pichai.
Another said staff fear being scolded by furious bosses who are 'spouting full-blown anti-media rhetoric, saying that the press is ganging up on Facebook.'
The source revealed: 'People now have burner phones to talk shit about the company - not even to reporters, just to other employees.'
Damian Collins, the chairman of Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, published secret Facebook documents
They said staff are at rock bottom, adding: 'It's the bunker mentality.
These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They're getting tired, getting cranky - the only survival strategy is to quit or fully buy in.'
A Facebook spokesman last night admitted: 'This a challenging time.'
The reports pile even more pressure on Mr Zuckerberg as MP Damian Collins, who is leading an investigation into fake news, yesterday published a 250-page document containing secret emails and private messages between Facebook staff.
It revealed Facebook signed deals to give companies such as Netflix and AirBnB special access to user dater and spied on Android users' calls and texts.
Facebook stock has plunged in recent months and is set to take a beating when the New York Stock Exchange opens Thursday morning after a hiatus for George H.W.
Bush's funeral.
Mr Collins used parliamentary privilege to seize the documents - which had been made secret by a US judge - from the founder of US app developer Six4Three, Ted Kramer, who had them as part of a legal case against Facebook.
In an extraordinary move when Mr Kramer was passing through London in November, Mr Collins had him escorted to Parliament and threatened to imprison him if he didn't hand them over.
The documents reveal:
Facebook programmed its android app to see users call and text records in which it admitted was a 'pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective'Facebook aggressively stopped rivals from accessing its users' data to maintain dominance, causing many apps to failCEO Mark Zuckerberg personally approved a decision to block Twitter's app Vine from accessing users' Facebook friends lists Mr Zuckerberg said he was 'sceptical' that apps with access Facebook users' data would pass data on, as then happened in the Cambridge Analytica scandalFacebook used Onavo app it acquired to spy on users' phone usage, apparently without their knowledge, to identify competitors such as Whatsapp to buy outThe messages discuss changes that Facebook made to its site in 2015 which limited apps' access to users' Facebook friends.
The app ThisIsYourDigitalLife exploited this feature to get information from millions of Facebook profiles despite only having around 300,000 direct users, which it later sold to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
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In emails sent ahead of the changes being implemented, Facebook senior staff discussed 'whitelisting' several apps - including Lyft, Tinder, and AirBnB - meaning they would keep full access to friend data.
One employee proposed only letting companies who pay a certain amount have access.
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