Mr. Stamos said in the interview that his last day at Facebook would be Aug. 17. At Stanford, he said, he planned to study the upcoming midterms and the role of technology, as well as election security more broadly and the topic of disinformation. Mr. Stamos also said Information Warfare was a new working group at Stanford with about 14 faculty members across academic disciplines. I’d like to take the things I’ve learned and apply them more broadly.”Mr. Stamos previously worked as chief information security officer at Yahoo before joining Facebook in 2015. “There aren’t good norms around a lot these things yet,” Mr. Stamos said.

Source: New York Times August 01, 2018 20:23 UTC