"Please Resign": Mark Zuckerberg's 2010 Email To Employee Leaks

There has been a lot of noise on social media ever since Facebook’s parent company Meta announced the second round of mass layoffs. From fluctuating economic cycles to overhiring, Twitteraties have had a fair share of perspectives to share on Meta’s decision. 

Amid the ongoing dialogue on mass layoffs in big tech companies, Zuckerberg’s 2010 email written to employees over a suspected confidentiality breach resurfaced on the microblogging website. 

Information leak an act of betrayal says Zuckerberg's letter

In the said letter, Zuckerberg appears to be annoyed with a story doing the rounds on claims of Facebook foraying into building a phone. Not only does he call the information inaccurate but he goes on to call the act of leaking the information, an act of betrayal on the part of the employee responsible for the media leak.

“Lots of you saw the TechCrunch story over the weekend claiming that we're building a mobile phone. We're not building a phone and I spoke at length at the Q&A on Friday about what we're actually doing-building ways to make all phones and apps more social.

"It is frustrating and destructive that anyone here thought is was okay to say this to anyone outside the company. This was an act of betrayal. The fact that the story was inaccurate doesn't make it any better”, Zuckerberg says in the letter leaked by Internal Tech Emails.

Resign or we will find out

Stressing on building a culture of promoting openness and transparency, Zuckerberg goes on to ask the employee behind the information leak to resign in the 13-year-old letter.

“If you believe that it's ever appropriate to leak internal information, you should leave. If you don't resign, we will almost certainly find out who you are anyway, said Zuckerberg in his letter ”

Mixed reactions on Twitter

While Zuckerberg's letters written to his newborn daughters in the past have garnered all the praise, this office email asking the employee to resign with immediate effect left twittarities divided. 

While one Twitter user called Zuckerberg a good CEO, another one claimed that his aggressive request asking the employee to resign was a violation of labour rights.