Alex Stamos on Leaving Facebook and Zuckerberg's Reign

Offline with Jon Favreau

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🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week on Offline, Jon is joined by Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former Chief Security Officer. As Jon’s first guest who has worked at a social media company, Alex gives us a first-hand look at Facebook’s internal politics, delivering insight on Russian hackers and the Haugen papers He also makes the case that it’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to step down.

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0:00.0	Was there a moment where you said to yourself,
0:02.4	like, I think I have to leave.
0:04.2	This is, I've butted heads enough here and I gotta go.
0:06.9	Yeah, I mean, in 2018, that's what happened.
0:09.7	Facebook says place that like,
0:11.5	if you go and you're like a lower down employee,
0:14.2	your new employee, it's like Care Bear land, right?
0:16.8	Like, everything's wonderful and the food is free.
0:19.0	And like, the posters say thing
0:20.1	about people supporting people and stuff, right?
0:22.4	So, it's like the Care Bearers
0:24.2	for 80, 90% of the company.
0:25.8	And if you're in the top 10% of the company,
0:27.3	it's Game of Thrones.
0:29.4	I'm John Fabro.
0:30.6	Welcome to Offline.
0:33.9	Hey, everyone.
0:34.6	Happy New Year and welcome back to Offline.
0:37.2	So, I guess this week is Alex Stamos,
0:39.0	who's currently director of the Stanford Internet Observatory
0:42.4	where they do all kinds of research
0:43.6	on the negative impact of technology and disinformation.
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