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Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session (thedailybeast.com)

Posted by msmash on from the where's-mark dept.

An anonymous reader writes: It's not just that he's silent in public. Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain the company's role in a widening international scandal over the 2016 election. Facebook employees on Tuesday got the opportunity for an internal briefing and question-and-answer session about Facebook's role with the Trump-aligned data firm Cambridge Analytica. It was the first the company held to brief and reassure employees after, ahead of damaging news reports, Facebook abruptly suspended Cambridge Analytica. But Zuckerberg himself wasn't there, The Daily Beast has learned. Instead, the session was conducted by a Facebook attorney, Paul Grewal, according to a source familiar with the meeting. That was the same approach the company used on Capitol Hill this past fall, when it sent its top attorney, Colin Stretch, to brief Congress about the prevalence of Russian propaganda, to include paid ads and inauthentic accounts, on its platform. Further reading: Where in the world is Mark Zuckerberg? Frustrated Facebook execs are asking.

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  1. Defend the undefendable by sinij · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't blame him, how would you defend the obvious fact that FB collected way too much information and does not tightly control who uses it and for what purpose? Leaking your data all over is their core business model.

  2. Facebook and MI6 were "The Russians" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Sorry kids, but the whole narrative that the Trump election was subverted by Putin has gone out the window.

    It was a bunch of British spooks that bought and sold Facebook-Google-Twitter data - and so did Team Hilary.

    And they continue to do so.

    In face, don't you think Google has already mapped out EVERY voter and EVERY district to game EVERY election?

    This is what "democracy" looks like in the face of corporatism.

    Enjoy your 'Do No Evil.'

    1. Re:Facebook and MI6 were "The Russians" by greenwow · · Score: 1, Interesting

      But the foreign British spy Hillary hired was doing work at her direction. A foreign government wasn't interfering with our election. In this case, they were ordering Trump to do their bidding so it was a foreign government interfering with our election.

      Same with Obama using Facebook data. An American company was helping an American candidate. In Trump's case, a foreign company was using Facebook data. It's completely different.