Facebook announced on Thursday that Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and Chris Daniels, the head of WhatsApp, are leaving the company.
Here's the key line from Cox's note:
"It's a product vision attuned to the subject matter of today: a modern communications platform that balances expression, safety, security, and privacy. This final sentence is revealing. By saying Zuckerberg's vision will need people who believe in the direction of travel, it implies that Cox is not among them., which in essence will combine the backends of WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram messaging to create an interoperable messaging service, protected by end-to-end encryption.
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