‘Meta’s culture is to attack’: WhatsApp’s ex-security head claims he was punished for speaking up

A former top security executive at WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Facebook-parent Meta. The lawsuit alleges that the internal performance review system of the company was weaponised to retaliate against him for exposing some major privacy vulnerabilities affecting millions of users. According to a report by Business Insider, Attaullah Baig, who worked as the head of security at WhatsApp, claims that Meta’s obsession with its Performance Summary Cycle (PSC), a system the company uses to evaluate employee performance has created a culture where optics contain more value as compared to user safety. “Meta’s culture is to attack the messenger, not the message,” Baig told Business Insider. “The reason this whole thing is big is because of user harm.”