Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mister Rogers’

The New York Times published a jaw-dropping report Wednesday that laid out how the company sought to cover up knowledge of Russian meddling and discredit its critics; the paper said COO Sheryl Sandberg oversaw a campaign of dirty tricks while CEO Mark Zuckerberg ignored problems or deflected responsibility.

And in short order, once-implausible questions about whether Zuckerberg would fire Sandberg or policy VP Joel Kaplan have become plausible.

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A lot of amazing reporting has been going on over Cambridge Analytica from the Guardian and from lots and lots of sources.

Patrick Gaspard, the president of the Open Society Foundation, just saying, The notion that your company at your direction actively engaged in the same behavior to try to discredit people exercising their First Amendment rights to protest Facebooks role in disseminating vile propaganda is frankly astonishing to me.

Instead, focusing on that one comment, and as it turns out, Mark was so petty that after he heard that comment in this New York Times article, he switched the phones to Android.

Instead of listening to very cogent feedback from someone who is pretty good at his job, they would focus on that, and they were so focused on the comment.

Two, and it depends on what comes out after this, because once this floodgate opens that the New York Times has opened, more is going to come.

So then thats the repercussions of everybody dropping more dimes, and you know theres emails and everything else, so thats one thing.

The extent of it has not been known and its sad that entire towns have been decimated and people have died in just terrible circumstances.

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Author: Eric Johnson

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