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Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says

posted by chromas on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-not-my-fault dept.

martyb writes:

Facebook Executives Ignored Warnings, Deflected Blame as Scandals Mounted, Report Says :

From Russian election meddling to a massive data privacy scandal, Facebook has faced a seemingly endless list of troubles. Now, a new report suggests the social network's leadership may be among its biggest challenges.

Over the past three years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg ignored warnings, deflected blame and were distracted by other projects as the social network lurched from crisis to crisis, according to a more than 5,000-word report by The New York Times. The paper, which interviewed more than 50 people for the story, painted an unflattering portrait of two executives' handling of the series of scandals, some of which eventually promoted [Ed: prompted?] Congress to ask both of them to testify.

The piece focused on Facebook's handling of fake news posted by Russian trolls ahead of the 2016 presidential, the impact of which Zuckerberg initially dismissed as "crazy," and the company's efforts to deflect blame after data of 87 million users was harvested by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The story also touched on in-fighting at the highest of levels of the company.

"Bent on growth, the pair ignored warning signs and then sought to conceal them from public view," The Times wrote. "At critical moments over the last three years, they were distracted by personal projects, and passed off security and policy decisions to subordinates, according to current and former executives."

Facebook told the paper it was committed to addressing the challenges.

Honesty: The absence of the intent to deceive.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:36PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:36PM (#762164)

    the Russians have gotten a lot of bang for their ruble just from the reaction to their efforts.

    The GOP has spent decades tee-ing it up for them, the russians just swooped in and took advantage of the situation. Even if the russians were totally neutralized the GOP would continue their project to end democracy in the USA. Just look at their attempts to disenfranchise voters this election cycle, especially military deployed overseas who mail in their ballots.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday November 15 2018, @04:11PM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 15 2018, @04:11PM (#762211) Journal

    ... GOP ... GOP ...

    So silly to get partisan at this point.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:29PM (#762277)

      callow stilling making bad takes to diddle himself in public. furthermore proof that you can't fix stupid.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 15 2018, @07:16PM (1 child)

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday November 15 2018, @07:16PM (#762305) Journal

      So silly to get partisan at this point.

      Democrats want more people to vote. Republicans want fewer people to vote. It's really that simple...