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Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' (variety.com)
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.
Never can just say what it's like, what's it's like, what it's like. The boy needs a big fat mama to make him right, make him right, make him right.
Not 100% believing NYT fact checking either....
Ahh wikipedia for Jayson Blair former NYT reporter
>Jayson Thomas Blair (born March 23, 1976) is a former American journalist who worked for The New York Times. He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of plagiarism and fabrication in his stories.
When did the narrative that anyone who criticizes George Soros should be labeled an "anti-Semitic alt-right group" begin? Soros isn't even Jewish. It demonstrates the reach that his dollars have and the lengths that his benefactors will go to preserve that flow of money. It is no secret that he funds MANY leftist groups and their media operations.
Facebook has become one of the most emotionally resonant pieces of technology today. It is also shaping our narratives along the way.
Oh, how the might have fallen. Please just let Facebook die and get it over with, already.
They had a chance to show they had some integrity after barking like a trained seal for Clinton in 2016 (Pepe) and blew it.
Zuckerberg is and has always been a psycho and *pathetic*. Talk about getting lucky, in the right place at the right time. He couldn't innovte or provide something truly useful to get out of a wet paper bag. All modern Valley companies have built upon the backs of others that did the hard work and actual innovating, their attitude is despicable.
Well forget about the memes. I am sure Facebook is deciding the public needs to be protected from the New York Times.
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
Actually they were practicing Jews are you are a liar. He was proud of his betrayal
Facebook sez the NY Times was inaccurate in saying Facebook was sleezy.
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, the idea is to get you to click (so the message is something you 'WANT' to hear), to take you to somewhere entirely different trying to sell you some rubbish.
You would think the lie would have died by now, but of course the US deep state and shadow government are still pushing it, as well as corporate Democrats for entirely bullshit reasons, whilst completely ignoring the death grip that the Israeli Mossad has on the US government, it's a parody of Keystone Cop incompetence, with the US government banning a expose of Israeli interference in the US government, not only not prosecuting high level corruption but seeking to hide it from the public in the most treasonous fashion imaginable. In this case both Facebook and the New York Times, look like complete fucking idiots, deep state and shadow government propagandists looking to point the finger at each other. How low can they go, obviously no limit until they hit bankruptcy, which is probably closer than both would want you to know.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
They claimed that "there are a number of inaccuracies in the story".
Zero is a number.
Zuckerberg himself testified that Facebook knew of Russian interference shortly before the 2016 election. So then why did Facebook keep denying Russian interference for months and months and months after the election, well into 2017? Did Facebook/F*ckerberg come out and admit the Russian interference on their own? NO! They only admitted it after news outlets, like the same ones they are now claiming are telling falsehoods, forced Facebook's hand by digging up more and more evidence of Russian interference via Facebook. Facebook is a horrible company which needs to go away.
No, you are a liar. And ugly too.
I find it tickles my perverse sense of humor to see lefties trading pot-shots with other lefties.
{^_-}
See how STUPID "ZIP" (Zach Patterson) the CHIMP is (tried to take credit for what I solved before him) https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he needs to LEARN TO READ)!
I even SHOW ways to do it YOURSELF https://tech.slashdot.org/comm... (he couldn't).
Delphi/FreePascal/ObjectPascal HAS no issue w/ null-term'd string bufferoverflows https://developers.slashdot.or... - C does, C++ can UNLESS you do what I said 1st loser.
Tell us about CODE SIGNING (which has been STOLEN & ABUSED) https://www.helpnetsecurity.co... MY METHOD CAN'T BE (upmodded +2 INTERESTING in CODING FOR DEFCON no less) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
"I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)
BIG TALK - Yet ZIP has nothing to show in programs. I can https://news.slashdot.org/comm... from registered /.ers liking/using/praising my work (& 100k users worldwide too). He can't.
LIAR ZIP says he has no account "I don't have an account, so I don't have mod points" https://news.slashdot.org/comm...
Yet LIAR ZIP says he downmods my posts (IMPOSSIBLE MINUS AN ACCOUNT on /.): "I down-modded a few of your post on other threads" - by Anonymous Coward "ZIP" on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:31AM (#57461058) FROM https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
APK
P.S.=> KEEP IMPERSONATING ME CHIMP https://science.slashdot.org/c... - this comes out every time EXPOSING your BLOWHARD incompetence... apk
You said it ZIP: Where's your work everyone can see/use? It's not. It's HOTAIRWARE/NOTWARE (lol) "I'm a much better programmer than APK" - by Anonymous Coward ZIP on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:27PM (#57449082)
The BETTER PROGRAMMER w/ no programs, lol - @ least you can say your "code" has NO BUGS - of course, it also does ZERO (like you) since it does nothing @ all, lol!
You hotair BLOWHARD talker, lol!
You f'd up ZIP https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
Yet 100,000++ users of my ware & dozens of even REGISTERED /.ers like/use/praise MY work https://news.slashdot.org/comm... vs. your HOTAIR talk punk!
* LMAO!
(Let's see how YOU take it when I publicly SHIT ALL OVER YOU by letting FACTS of YOUR FUCKUPS vs. ME https://science.slashdot.org/c... do the job for me)
APK
P.S.=> You STUPID & LAZY all talk chimpanzee - KEEP IMPERSONATING me https://science.slashdot.org/c... - I'll expose your BLOWHARD INCOMPETENCE publicly, lol... apk
Exposing the truth is still considered trolling around here, eh?, Like telling the pope there is no god. And the 2020 is campaign well underway. Gotta admit, the faith is most powerful, so weird
And their own country. This is nothingburger par for the course news.
Paraphrasing Mandy Rice-Davis's immortal words, as relevant today as they were at the time.
but of course the US deep state and shadow government
Russian troll says what?
psychopathic moderators ruining it for everybody. Well there ya go asshole, you can't mod it down anymore. You'll have to stalk the account, which you probably will do.
Pick one. Fun game, anyone who mods this down is racist. Isn't that how you guys deflect logic you cannot argue against?
And see if it makes sense. Both has equally as much validity.