Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: November 15, 2018 at 6:46:25 AM GMT+9
> To: infowarrior list <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
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> Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
> By Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas
>
> Nov. 14, 2018
>
> Sheryl Sandberg was seething.
>
> Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of 
> its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017, more than a year after Facebook engineers discovered suspicious 
> Russia-linked activity on its site, an early warning of the Kremlin campaign to disrupt the 2016 American election. 
> Congressional and federal investigators were closing in on evidence that would implicate the company.
>
> But it wasn’t the looming disaster at Facebook that angered Ms. Sandberg. It was the social network’s security chief, 
> Alex Stamos, who had informed company board members the day before that Facebook had yet to contain the Russian 
> infestation. Mr. Stamos’s briefing had prompted a humiliating boardroom interrogation of Ms. Sandberg, Facebook’s 
> chief operating officer, and her billionaire boss. She appeared to regard the admission as a betrayal.
>
> “You threw us under the bus!” she yelled at Mr. Stamos, according to people who were present.
>
> The clash that day would set off a reckoning — for Mr. Zuckerberg, for Ms. Sandberg and for the business they had 
> built together. In just over a decade, Facebook has connected more than 2.2 billion people, a global nation unto 
> itself that reshaped political campaigns, the advertising business and daily life around the world. Along the way, 
> Facebook accumulated one of the largest-ever repositories of personal data, a treasure trove of photos, messages and 
> likes that propelled the company into the Fortune 500....
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html



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