Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook's Leaders Fought Through Crisis
Source: New York Times
"Sheryl Sandberg was seething.
Inside Facebooks 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 wasnt the looming disaster at Facebook that angered Ms. Sandberg. It was the social networks security chief, Alex Stamos, who had informed company board members the day before that Facebook had yet to contain the Russian infestation. Mr. Stamoss briefing had prompted a humiliating boardroom interrogation of Ms. Sandberg, Facebooks 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."
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html
P/S: This Story Is A MUST READ. The Plot, Thickens to say the least.
dalton99a
(81,433 posts)Great article
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)"Lean In" Sheryl.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,039 posts)hibbing
(10,095 posts)It is quite a long article but well worth the time. I'm not on the Facebook, but I have seen how the manipulated "news" feeds have influenced friends
Peace
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)This....
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)UpInArms
(51,280 posts)Am done with these filthy creeps
renate
(13,776 posts)At least at first (admittedly, I didn't stick around). And it's probably shut down completely by now. But if they revived it I'd go over there in a heartbeat if my friends did too.