Top Security Execs at Google, Facebook, and Twitter Announce Departures>
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Facebook CSO to leave in August News of Stamos’ departure broke after the Facebook – Cambridge Analytica scandal, where a UK company harvested Facebook user information and used it to profile voters in the US 2016 presidential election. High-ranking security exec leaving Google News about Stamos’ desire to depart Facebook appears to have triggered similar announcements from two other executives. The first to follow Stamos was Michal Zalewski, the director of information security at Google. Zalewski joined Google in 2007, and served second in command to Google’s chief security officer Gerhard Eschelbeck. A day later, Michael Coates, the chief information and security officer (CISO) at Twitter made a similar announcement. All three departures come after US and EU authorities have been putting pressure on Internet companies to crack down on terrorist content, political propaganda, election meddling, and fake news.
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