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On Wednesday, The New York Times published a blockbuster report on the failures of Facebook’s management team during the past three years. It's.... not flattering, to say the least. Here are six follow-up questions that merit more investigation. 1/ wired.trib.al/MUKoQct
1) During the past year, most of the anger at Facebook has been directed at Mark Zuckerberg. The question now is whether Sheryl Sandberg, the executive charged with solving Facebook’s hardest problems, has caused a few too many of her own. 2/ wired.trib.al/MUKoQct
2) One of the juiciest sentences in @nytimes’ piece involves a research group called Definers Public Affairs, which Facebook hired to look into the funding of the company’s opposition. What other tech company was paying Definers to smear Apple? 3/ wired.trib.al/MUKoQct
3) The leadership of the Democratic Party has, generally, supported Facebook over the years. But as public opinion turns against the company, prominent Democrats have started to turn, too. What will that relationship look like now? 4/ wired.trib.al/MUKoQct
4) According to the @nytimes, Facebook worked to paint its critics as anti-Semitic, while simultaneously working to spread the idea that George Soros was supporting its critics—a classic tactic of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists. What exactly were they trying to do there? 5/
5) Did Facebook lie about what they knew about Russian operations on the platform during the 2016 election? It depends on who you ask. 6/ wired.trib.al/MUKoQct
6) It seems as though Facebook has changed dramatically since it first acknowledged Russian interference. But just how much has it actually changed? And are any of these fixes enough to address what seems to be a serious problem for Facebook? 7/ wired.trib.al/MUKoQct
Read more about what @nytimes’ report revealed, and how we’re grappling with the questions we still have here: wired.trib.al/MUKoQct 8/
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