What does tone-at-the-top mean at an organization? Is it win at any (literally any) cost? If that really is the message, how long, then, before it permeates all the way through the organization?

Those questions and certainly others have been on the forefront of The Man From FCPA for several days after the revelation of the 2016 internal memo at Facebook, written by Facebook Vice President Andrew Bosworth (AKA, โ€œThe Bozโ€), in which he stated, โ€œMaybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And we still connect people. The ugly truth is we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* good.โ€

Thomas Fox has practiced law for over 40 years. Tom writes the daily award-winning blog, the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog and founded the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom leads the discussion on AI in...