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IANS | 15 Mar, 2019
As Facebook pushes for a more private and encrypted communication across
its apps, two of its top executives -- Chief Product Officer Chris Cox
and WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels -- have quit the company, CEO
Mark Zuckerberg has announced.
Embroiled in data privacy scandals
amid the unabated spread of fake news on its platform, Facebook has
lately seen several high-profile exits.
"Cox and I have worked
closely together to build our products for more than a decade and I will
always appreciate his deep empathy for the people using our services
and the uplifting spirit he brings to everything he does," Zuckerberg
said in a blog post late Thursday.
In a separate Facebook post,
Cox said Facebook is turning a new page in its product direction,
focused on an encrypted, interoperable, messaging network.
"It's a
product vision attuned to the subject matter of today: a modern
communications platform that balances expression, safety, security, and
privacy.
"This will be a big project and we will need leaders who
are excited to see the new direction through," wrote Cox, who was one
of the first 15 engineers Facebook hired 13 years back.
Zuckerberg
also announced the departure of Chris Daniel, who helped Facebook
define the business model for WhatsApp going forward.
"Daniel has
also done great work in many roles, including running our business
development team, leading Internet.org, which has helped more than 100
million people get access to the Internet," said the Facebook CEO.
Daniel
was in India last year where he met IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to
discuss ways to sanitise WhatsApp amid several lynching episodes that
happened owing to the spread of rumours on the platform.
"Will
Cathcart will be the new head of WhatsApp. Most recently, he has done a
great job running the Facebook app," Zuckerberg informed.
Fidji Simo will be the new head of the Facebook app.
"The
leaders of Facebook (Fidji Simo), Instagram (Adam Mosseri), Messenger
(Stan Chudnovsky), and WhatsApp (Will Cathcart) will report directly to
me, and our Chief Marketing Officer (Antonio Lucio) will report directly
to Sheryl (Sandberg)," Zuckerberg announced.
Last year, Instagram co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom quit after reportedly facing issues with Zuckerberg.
Jan
Koum and Brian Acton, co-founders of WhatsApp, have also quit to pursue
other ventures, as Zuckerberg plans to merge all its apps into one
unified experience.
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