The author was the latest high-profile name to leave the social media giant, claiming he’s no longer confident the company has the “ability to protect its users’ privacy.”

The company shut down four separate networks of accounts which reached around 250,000 users in the United States, Latin America, and North Africa.

In what seems to be an attempt to prevent more conservative backlash, Mark Zuckerberg holds off-the-records meetings in his home with conservative leaders.

Facebook wants to make it possible for its users to send messages to one another through WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram without having to switch apps.

Under fire over recent scandals, Mark Zuckerberg says he has no immediate plans to resign as Facebook’s chairman.

Google has become yet another high profile Silicon Valley tech giant to be engulfed in a privacy breach scandal. A bug in the API for Google+ had been allowing third-party applications and their developers to access data from Google+ users without permission.