Great investigation by the New York Times
As Facebook’s disinformation and privacy challenges rose, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg obscured warnings and tapped Washington lobbyists to deflect criticism, according to interviews with over 50 people https://t.co/m0poTQLAqI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 14, 2018
Notice they said it was "unfair," not false https://t.co/dw2aZqpfgG
— Astead (@AsteadWesley) November 15, 2018
update 11/16
Alex Stamos. Facebook's former chief security officer, writes for The Post: "Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren’t the only ones." https://t.co/vpeiTRzj0B
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 17, 2018
Firm that worked for Facebook tried to plant a story alleging liberal bias at Apple News https://t.co/bgz36a3qm5 pic.twitter.com/llxETZTB7l
— CNN (@CNN) November 16, 2018
This is pretty disturbing. At the same time that Facebook was publicly professing their desire to work with the Intel committee, they were paying a political opposition research firm to privately attempt to undermine the committee’s credibility. https://t.co/XEe4udZgny
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) November 16, 2018
Democrat @SenSchumer tried to bully a fellow senator to “back off” from investigating Facebook, where his daughter works, and which gives him more money than any other member of Congress. Why isn’t this a bigger story? asks @mehdirhasan. https://t.co/FzWNKWKAd8
— The Intercept (@theintercept) November 16, 2018
We did a no surprises call with Facebook before the story was published. It’s a basic (good) journalistic practice in which you let a company or person know a story is coming, and give them a chance to respond…. Facebook only fired Definers after the story came out. https://t.co/5pLvIylGCC
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) November 15, 2018
My letter to @facebook regarding the smear campaign they paid for and disseminated against George Soros & @OpenSociety as reported by @nickconfessore in the @nytimes. These tactics out of Putin’s playbook have no place in an important debate about the integrity of our elections pic.twitter.com/jF9RhC5vSy
— Patrick Gaspard (@patrickgaspard) November 15, 2018
Facebook accuses its critics of anti-semitism while deploying anti-semitism against its critics. Where have I seen this before? pic.twitter.com/WJPowmDICz
— Paul Blumenthal (@PaulBlu) November 15, 2018
The New York Times exposed extraordinary details about Facebook’s inner workings: https://t.co/4MAISooKBx pic.twitter.com/4BcMNrwfIe
— CJR (@CJR) November 15, 2018
Facebook has fired consultants in response to a damning New York Times reporthttps://t.co/4GcJbecSYK
— POLITICO (@politico) November 15, 2018
On Wednesday, @nytimes published a blockbuster—five byline, 50 source, 5,000 word—report on the failures of Facebook’s management team during the past three years. You should read it. These are six follow-up questions we feel merit additional investigation https://t.co/rtJEMMT2Pg
— WIRED (@WIRED) November 15, 2018
Opinion: It’s time to start regulating Facebook https://t.co/6BKCCceUJA
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 15, 2018
Facebook is a normal sleazy company now: https://t.co/2rFsTzPFq9 pic.twitter.com/F6yCFlSXHu
— Slate (@Slate) November 15, 2018
Most upsetting – even Facebook execs stoked anti-Semitic dog whistle to silence critics:
“Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros.” https://t.co/maLhHCZcHv— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) November 15, 2018
Facebook has fired a conservative public relations firm that was, among other work, digging up dirt on its competitors https://t.co/WmXyteQySp pic.twitter.com/4kccU67AcQ
— CNN (@CNN) November 15, 2018
NYT: Over and over, Facebook made key decisions with huge implications for the country and the world because their public policy exec was afraid the alternative would trigger conservative backlash. (Former Bush official, same guy who sat behind Kavanaugh) https://t.co/XHgJiHq8Bl pic.twitter.com/QsZwltmxcc
— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) November 15, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress he would work to stop the spread of conspiracy theories on Facebook—while his company was doing the opposite. https://t.co/gZOnmXclN7 pic.twitter.com/DbvCUXOlcm
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) November 15, 2018
A reminder that Sheryl Sandberg was widely being floated as Treasury Secretary if Hillary Clinton had won in the month leading up to the election: https://t.co/DCHtYiD2zr
— Mike Konczal (@rortybomb) November 15, 2018
update 11/16/18
“The revelations may be ‘the straw that breaks the camel’s back,’ said Rishad Tobaccowala, chief growth officer for the Publicis Groupe. ‘Now we know Facebook will do whatever it takes to make money. They have absolutely no morals.’” advertisers sound off: https://t.co/L0poeqeKWD
— Sapna Maheshwari (@sapna) November 16, 2018
Sad! 