Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs

Only if the buck can run them down, when they can afford to outrun every worker between the buck and being held accountable for their decisions. Meta’s attempting to claim that leadership did not wield management authority to have torrenting occur because if the company is just operated by adhoc cowboy devops, then management is never held liable for mismanagement.

Not in recent US history, no

It’s one of the generally stated justifications. It’s only partly understood, mostly because a lot of us with eyes see execs have no consequences for their demands and seeing the shit roll down hill.

And I’m even willing to include the fake “X executive has decided to move on to newer and greater things and we wish him well” lie to save face for firing an executive as consequences. I’m referring to the straight up, we’re blaming a peon, my income stays the same or goes up no consequences

I mean, it's not like you actually believe that, do you?