One of Mark Zuckerberg's top lieutenants says he quit over 'artistic differences' with the Facebook CEO

Former Facebook executive Chris Cox told Yahoo that he left the company over “artistic differences” with CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Cox left Facebook in March after 13 years at the company.His departure came after Zuckerberg announced his plans to merge the backend of Facebook's various messaging apps as part of a pivot to privacy.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Facebook's former head of product Chris Cox left the company because of “artistic differences” with Mark Zuckerberg, he told Yahoo Finance.Cox left Facebook in March after 13 years at the company. Speaking to Yahoo, Cox declined to give any more details about his departure out of respect for CEO Zuckerberg.“I respect and care about Mark so deeply that I would never really want to get into more detail than that,” he said as part of a lengthy profile on his life and work at Facebook.Yahoo said the “artistic differences” quip was said “half jokingly” by Cox. Three sources familiar with his thinking told the website that he had clashed with Zuckerberg over plans to radically reshape Facebook in a pivot to privacy.Read more: A red flag in a Facebook exec's goodbye letter shows there's bad blood over Mark Zuckerberg's radical privacy planZuckerberg announced plans in March to knit together the backends on Facebook's various messaging products to create one, end-to-end encrypted service.His exit was one many at Facebook in recent months, with other departures including Instagram's founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.Cox posted a public goodbye letter on his Facebook page following the announcement, in which he referred to this new privacy-oriented approach. “This will be a big project and we will need leaders who are excited to see the new direction through,” he wrote at the time.

Facebook前高管克里斯·考克斯告诉雅虎，他离开公司与首席执行官马克·扎克伯格之间的“艺术差异”.Cox在该公司工作13年后于3月离开Facebook。他在扎克伯格宣布合并计划后离职Facebook的各种消息应用程序的后端作为隐私的一部分。访问Business Insider的主页以获取更多故事.Facebook的前产品主管Chris Cox因与Mark Zuckerberg的“艺术差异”而离开公司，他告诉雅虎财经.Cox离开Facebook在3月份在该公司工作了13年。在向雅虎发表讲话时，考克斯拒绝透露更多有关他离开尊重首席执行官扎克伯格的细节。“我非常尊重和关心马克，以至于我真的不想进一步了解这一点，”他说，关于他在Facebook上的生活和工作的长篇大论。雅虎说，“艺术差异”的讽刺是由考克斯“半开玩笑地”说的。熟悉他的想法的三位消息人士告诉该网站，他曾与扎克伯格发生冲突，计划彻底改变Facebook的隐私重点。更多：Facebook执行官的告别信中的红旗表明马克扎克伯格的激进隐私计划遭到了严重打击扎克伯格宣布计划在3月份将Facebook的各种消息产品的后端编织在一起，以创建一个端到端的加密服务。最近几个月他退出了Facebook的许多人，其他离职者包括Instagram的创始人Kevin Systrom和Mike Krieger.Cox发布了在宣布之后，他在Facebook页面上发布了一封公告，其中他提到了这种新的以隐私为导向的方法。 “这将是一个大项目，我们需要能够看到新方向的领导者，”他当时写道。