Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg's 'Please Resign' email from 2010 leaked

An old email from 2010 has come back to haunt Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. The old email was leaked for the first time on Tuesday and it showcases a truly enraged Zuckerberg asking a Facebook employee to 'please resign' following the leak of the social media site's then future plans.

Mark Zuckerberg was upset about a TechCrunch story that implied that the social media company was secretly planning to build a phone. Zuckerberg goes on to equate the leaked info as an 'act of betrayal'. But what is evident throughout the mail is that he never actually knew who leaked the information.

The 2010 email was published by Internal Tech Emails on 19th March.



The message begins with a line "Confidential - Do Not Share", and he goes on to blast the 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... about what we're actually doing - building ways to make all phones and apps more social," Zuckerberg said in the September 2010 email.

"This was an act of betrayal," read one of the lines. "So I'm asking whoever leaked this to resign immediately," the CEO raged.

"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," Zuckerberg added.

Facebook now comes under a new brand named Meta and has laid off thousands of employees as a part of what the company CEO calls its 'year of efficiency' as the tech sector continues to downsize around the globe.

In an email to employees earlier this month, Zuckerberg said Meta would shed 10,000 jobs over the course of the next few months, targeting middle management, and that 5,000 other roles would remain unfilled.

Meta had a rough ride in 2022 amid a souring economic climate which had forced advertisers to cut back on marketing, and Apple's data privacy changes, which have reduced leeway for ad personalization.