Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' (variety.com) 64
Earlier today, Facebook issued a response to a New York Times report on the social media company's handling of the many scandals it faced last year, including Russian interference and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. "There are a number of inaccuracies in the story," Facebook said in a point-by-point blog post, including that the company was aware of Russian meddling on the social platform months before taking any action. Variety reports: Facebook said it has "acknowledged publicly on many occasions" that "we were too slow to spot Russian interference on Facebook, as well as other misuse." But Facebook denied the allegation in the Times report that the company knew about Russian activity as early as the spring of 2016 and had failed to actively investigate it. The company cited CEO Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony from April 2018, in which he said Facebook detected threats related to Russia only in the weeks leading up to the U.S. election in November 2016. When it identified fake accounts that were used to furnish stolen information to journalists, "we shut these accounts down for violating our policies," Zuckerberg testified.
Meanwhile, Facebook in October 2017 enlisted Washington, D.C.-area PR firm Definers Public Affairs, founded by Republican political strategists, as part of its crisis response to dealing with the Russia fallout. Among other activities, Definers launched a campaign linking Facebook critics to liberal billionaire George Soros, a common tactic used by anti-Semitic alt-right groups. At the same time, Facebook lobbied the Anti-Defamation League to portray other critics of the company as anti-Semitic, per the Times report. On Thursday, Facebook said it terminated its contract with Definers on Nov. 14 after the Times story was published. Facebook acknowledged that Definers "did encourage members of the press to look into the funding"of Freedom From Facebook, an anti-Facebook organization that has called for the company's breakup. "The intention [of the Definers' efforts] was to demonstrate that it was not simply a spontaneous grassroots campaign, as it claimed, but supported by a well-known critic of our company. To suggest that this was an anti-Semitic attack is reprehensible and untrue," Facebook said.
Meanwhile, Facebook in October 2017 enlisted Washington, D.C.-area PR firm Definers Public Affairs, founded by Republican political strategists, as part of its crisis response to dealing with the Russia fallout. Among other activities, Definers launched a campaign linking Facebook critics to liberal billionaire George Soros, a common tactic used by anti-Semitic alt-right groups. At the same time, Facebook lobbied the Anti-Defamation League to portray other critics of the company as anti-Semitic, per the Times report. On Thursday, Facebook said it terminated its contract with Definers on Nov. 14 after the Times story was published. Facebook acknowledged that Definers "did encourage members of the press to look into the funding"of Freedom From Facebook, an anti-Facebook organization that has called for the company's breakup. "The intention [of the Definers' efforts] was to demonstrate that it was not simply a spontaneous grassroots campaign, as it claimed, but supported by a well-known critic of our company. To suggest that this was an anti-Semitic attack is reprehensible and untrue," Facebook said.
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Well forget about the memes. I am sure Facebook is deciding the public needs to be protected from the New York Times.
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Facebook aware, what a joke. Click bait from Russian click bait farms was not interference in anything, although it could be called a divergence from politics, because it is politically aligned to get you to click it but the link does not take you to a political site but some junk site selling some rubbish. It would be a huge stretch to call that Russian interference because so many click bait farms from all over the planet do exactly that. Whether they use politics, porn, promises of all sorts of prizes, t
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Right. They should have said "super sleezy scum" instead. More accurate that way.
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Where do you get that Soros isn't Jewish ? It's not like being a southern baptist and you can walk in, take a special shower and be a baptist. He's Jewish (not that it matters), whether he actively practices the religion is irrelevant.
Or is this some tri-level conspiracy theory bullshit where after decades of attacking him for being some Jewish Rothschild mastermind he's now 'not even Jewish'.
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Someone is supposed to profit, but it's not clear exactly how.
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Jewish isn't a race, it's a religion.
Educate yourself [wikipedia.org].
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It's both.
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The point is the disgusting deflection the Left always does to demonize people who disagree. Soros is a full-throated globalist so nationalism suddenly becomes white-nationalism, etc. There is no doubt that George Soros has funneled billions of dollars into his various organizations who then route that money to fund radical Leftist causes and their media orgs. It isn't up for debate. Instead of discussing merits they quickly label anyone who disagrees with the most vile slurs they can think of over and ov
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He's a NAZI collaborator
That's what's called a "lie". We both know it isn't true. What I want to know is why your worldview is so centred on making up lies about people you feel you should hate? Does it make hating them easier?
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That's what's called in his own words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
He had no sense of guilt as well.
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I cba to click on a youtube link especially when I'm 99% sure you're linking to that interview that I've already seen. It's covered far better here than I could ever cover it:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch... [snopes.com]
So we still both know you're full of shit. It's funny that you realise you're suposed to need a good reason to hate someone. What's not funy is your desparate attempt at a post-hoc justificaton of your hate. You are prepared to stretch facts to far, far beyond breaking point in order to justify to yours
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I am sorry but linking to snopes which has well known problems is b.s. and you know it. It isn't a fact checking site as a propaganda site. What else do you call it when the owner hires a prostitute as a fact checker who is also his mistress.
I bet you're #BelieveHer when it comes to Kavanaugh but don't give a shit about Keith Ellison.
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I am sorry but linking to snopes which has well known problems is b.s. and you know it.
Problems in that it has a strong reality bias. I guess that is a bias if you truly live in a post truth age.
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I am sorry but linking to snopes which has well known problems is b.s. and you know it.
Problems in that it has a strong reality bias. I guess that is a bias if you truly live in a post truth age.
Yeah reality bias. Having a fact checker running for office, and another who is both a prostitute and works while drugged is a reality bias.
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Oh, so you're one of those people who think he was a 9 year-old SS officer?
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No I am one of those people that doesn't give him a pass for helping the NAZIs rob people who were being sent to death camps.
I also am one of those people who don't "No I don't feel any guilt, because it would have happened anyway" as an excuse from anyone.
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Your source that the child Soros robbed people going to death camps? Infowars?
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60 minutes, I linked to the video clip already
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I give him a pass for not doing that. He didn't rob people going to death camps. He didn't rob Jews in general. He didn't rob anyone.
That's the spin he started to put out after he realized how bad what he said was.
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Where do you get that Soros isn't Jewish ? It's not like being a southern baptist and you can walk in, take a special shower and be a baptist. He's Jewish (not that it matters), whether he actively practices the religion is irrelevant.
Or is this some tri-level conspiracy theory bullshit where after decades of attacking him for being some Jewish Rothschild mastermind he's now 'not even Jewish'.
He's a rich leftist (we used to call them "limousine liberals") who uses his money to cause problems around the world.
I neither knew nor cared that he is in some sense Jewish; nor probably do most people who criticize him know or care.
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"cause problems around the world"? That characterization seems enormously, and unhelpfully, opinionated. Regardless of whether you agree with the causes he supports, or not, simple fairness requires you to acknowledge that he is not just spending his money in an attempt to "cause problems".
If you disagree with him, please be honest about that disagreement. Don't assign intent that is clearly not there in an effort to demonize. That is just dishonest.
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I don't know about the Jewish part, and I don't care; that's irrelevant to me, I'm not remotely anti-Semitic. Behavior and action is what matters, not race or creed.
But that little line exposes Variety as yet another left leaning publication who wants to paint anyone anti-Soros as a deplorable. Not only the so-called "alt-right" criticizes Soros, many standard conservatives do as well, simply for the fact that he is the funding behind many globalist and leftist agendas. I'll bet Variety would not dream of
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Their hands are in enough things at this point that even if facebook itself stops seeing use (long time away) they'll still live a long long time in other ways.
ROFL (Score:5, Insightful)
Facebook accusing anyone of disseminating inaccurate information is so epic in its hypocrisy that
I don't think the English language can possibly describe it.
POT meet KETTLE
Facebook is mathematically correct (Score:5, Informative)
They claimed that "there are a number of inaccuracies in the story".
Zero is a number.
Blue on Blue is fun to watch (Score:1, Funny)
I find it tickles my perverse sense of humor to see lefties trading pot-shots with other lefties.
{^_-}
They would, wouldn't they? (Score:2)