[caption id="attachment_197496" align="aligncenter" width="250"] Cox and Zuckerberg[/caption] Two of Facebook's top executives - head of product Chrix Cox and WhatsApp chief Chris Daniels are leaving the company after disagreements with Mark Zuckerberg over the company's future direction. Differences over new single integrated privacy focused platform: The departures reportedly stemmed from Zuckerberg's recently announced plan to integrate Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp into a single privacy-focused platform. In a public post, Cox said that Facebook is "turning a new page in our product direction, focused on an encrypted, interoperable, messaging network" and that "we will need new leaders" to take the new direction. Cox has been with Facebook for over 13 years, and helped build and News Feed and Facebook's mobile app, Daniels joined the company is 2011. Facebook's leadership was reshuffled last March when Cox was given charge of all of Facebook's apps including Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook app. At the time, Daniels was promoted to WhatsApp chief, where he has "helped define the business model for our messaging services'. Chris Cox leaving Facebook is HUGE. He vacations with Zuckerberg. But when you put someone in charge of a bunch of stuff, and then you fundamentally change how that stuff works, you're no longer in charge of that stuff. Cox still holds $62mm $FB shares https://t.co/YyXWWym23r — Edmund Lee (@edmundlee) March 14, 2019 Top leaders depart over past year Facebook's top leadership has seen turmoil over past year, Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger departed abruptly after clashing with Zuckerberg…
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