Facebook is transferring the former head of information Mosseri on the hot seat Instagram

The current vice president of the product Instagram, Adam Mosseri, will take the reins as head of Instagram, announced Monday the co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.

Mosseri joined the Facebook giant in 2008 as a designer and rose through the ranks as head of information on Facebook, where he had to deal with numerous accusations that Facebook did not go out of his way. not enough to fight against false information and other wrong information that fills the social network. Mosseri recently switched to Instagram to assume the role of vice president of products.

"We are delighted to entrust the task to a product manager with a strong design background, which focuses on craftsmanship and simplicity, as well as a deep understanding of the importance of the community, "wrote Systrom and Krieger in a blog post.

"Since we announced our departure, many people have asked us what we were hoping for in the future of Instagram." For us, the most important thing is to keep our community – all of you – at home. Foreground of everything Instagram does, we believe Adam will stick to these values ​​and Instagram will continue to thrive. "

The new manager will be responsible for replenishing the company's management team and will hire new people responsible for engineering, products and operations.

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Systrom and Krieger announced last week that they were leaving the company they had founded to "re-explore our curiosity and creativity."

"Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years on Instagram and six years for the Facebook team," wrote Systrom.

"We have grown from 13 people to more than a thousand, with offices around the world, while building products used and appreciated by a community of over one billion people, and we are ready for our next chapter. "

Instagram was founded in 2010 by Facebook, which bought Instagram two years later for a billion dollars. Since then, this community now has more than a billion monthly users.

Late last week, Facebook revealed a massive security breach that affected at least 50 million of its users. The attacks were done by stealing the access tokens used in its "View as" feature to check the appearance of the profiles for others.

Facebook was later sued in California by two plantiffs seeking class action status.

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