Thread by @jason_kint

!!! As I mentioned last week, ND Cal court ordered unsealing of motion to compel Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg for discovery in their cover-up of Cambridge Analytica which broke wide open March 2018. Yellow was just unsealed - compare to Zuckerberg's testimony to @AOC. /1

This matters as it's long been expected much of Zuckerberg's messages on the matter happened directly with Sandberg or offline. It's an entirely rational practice to keep the CEO off the messy emails. Hence the need for discovery and depositions of Zuckerberg and Sandberg. /2

Meanwhile, Facebook:
- paid $5B to FTC to avoid depositions of leadership;
- negotiated questions off-limits the one time Sandberg testified;
- denied and deflected Parliaments attempts to get answers;
- so far, has avoided discovery and depositions of leadership by AG of DC. /3

Speaking of Sandberg, there is one bit that was unsealed next to a number of redactions left in place. The filing indicates that her files demonstrate that Cambridge Analytica was "merely the tip of the iceberg" which has always been the point of the case and cover-up. /4

This section was left sealed as Facebook claimed it was "confidential communication with consultants." Must be nice having that sort of latitude to avoid embarrassment who helped you with your cover-up. /5

More here in yellow, this just further confirms Sheryl Sandberg's role and importance of these lawsuits continuing to proceed forward in depositions and discovery. A reminder we also just learned there is a sealed transcript of a deposition of Mark Zuckerberg by the SEC. /6

If you want to review the full thread on the cover-up, I put it together last March as a reference to the inconsistencies and deflections in what should have been simple questions and answers at a time when Facebook promised it would come clean. /7

There were three other motions unsealed in the process (and a number of items left redacted per a last minute request by Facebook). This includes a motion regarding Facebook's APIs, their "business partners" and a still delayed look at their promised audit post-Cambridge. /8

The unsealed "business partners" motion includes (I believe for the first time) most of the full list of the 60+ companies who had access to their APIs and social graph as @nickconfessore @gabrieldance @laforgia_ reported in 2018. /9 nytimes.com/interactive/20…

There are a few companies left redacted. You can kind of figure out why later on in this breakdown. It looks like the car companies remain sealed as Facebook argued it could hurt their business relationships if the public knew they had much of our data. /10

Side note, there are a bunch of sentences unsealed that just confirm the obvious that Facebook has/had data partners and they're called "data brokers" and allegedly they both sent and received data from Facebook which is embarrassing for them as they don't "sell" your data. /11

Any engineer or business exec in the data or cloud industry would probably find the unsealed motion regarding APIs to be interesting. It includes some costs, massive data sizes, times, tables to restore from cold to warm, et al. And random things like this in yellow. Yikes. /12

Circling back to this first tweet. The answer to the email could have been: Mark, they laundered tens of millions of our records and used it to help elect Donald Trump including to microtarget suppression ads in key districts and we helped them do it. /13