1) good call 2) issue wasn’t whether product was needed but whether FB can be trusted to operate it (it can’t, this is proven), 3) one link in @mosseri post to ongoing attempts to discredit WSJ reconfirms spineless amateur hour in failing to rebuild trust. theverge.com/2021/9/27/2269…
Point being @mosseri didn’t have to include that link. He could have said he wanted to focus on rebuilding trust going forward, why this new product is needed and his assurances to get it right. But instead he chose to weaponize it and help the PR comms team like a good soldier.
If you need additional press reports to point to rather than a Facebook executive’s tweets and blog posts (never link to these without proper context), here is WSJ: wsj.com/articles/faceb…
overheard in @JeffHorwitz timeline and relevant to👆🏽: "Late last week @georgia_wells and I told Instagram we had something coming on this subject."

If Facebook has to testify to Congress this Thu and knew there's more WSJ coming, best tactic to control message is to press pause.

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28 Sep
2:30pm ET today. District of Columbia vs Facebook which is deep in discovery on Cambridge Analytica cover-up and Facebook is resisting discovery, depositions of anything sensitive including sharing its privilege log
Judge reviewing the two motions. First up is DC's motion to compel Facebook to produce documents including designating additional custodians (DC is rightly wanting discovery on the Facebook Growth & Monetization team) as needed. She walks through the motion and opposition.
DC now arguing motion to compel. DC counsel begins argument back in 2010 reconfirming its understanding of case noting Cambridge Analytica, and the hiding of it in 2015-onward, as representative of the harms in design decisions with the platform to turn user data into profits.
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28 Sep
Finally. Today at 10am we’ll hear testimony from NYU researchers ⬇️ who Facebook sent a cease and desist as they gathered microtargeting info on political ads then banned outright as they gathered January 6th incitement info. Zuckerberg got to speak first.
Facebook tried to position the decision as based on FTC consent order around privacy but the FTC dismissed that publicly in a rare open letter. And press were all over it appreciatively.
Here is a link to 10am hearing if you want to hear and share why Facebook shut down the researchers access. What’s Facebook hiding? The public deserves that they #DiscloseTheData. Helpful to share that hashtag and link. 🙏🏽 science.house.gov/hearings/the-d…
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28 Sep
ok, thread coming.
Just-released 200pg final report from Australia's competition and consumer protection regulator states emphatically Google's dominance in adtech harms both businesses and consumers. This table explains to any layperson why. #DominatingAllSidesOfMarket /1 Image
yellow highlights are mine having now read full report (and prior interim report). Prior chart ⬆️ shows overwhelming market power (aka "Being Bad") on all sides of transactions. Report also includes conduct (aka "Behaving Badly"). The two combined create unanimous concerns. /2 Image
What do I mean by all sides of the market? Focus on the sentence in yellow and consider any other high-speed marketplace this market power exists on all sides. No wonder Google has systematically shifted its revenues towards higher-margin inventory pools (its own). /3 Image
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23 Sep
thread: since Facebook PR @andymstone is feinting transparency, please explain whether some stories are are given any benefit of doubt due to an exemption list? I asked your COO Sandberg last year - concerning report Facebook uses Alexa popularity list as proxy for quality. /1
Here was my original Oct 30, 2020 (!!) email to Facebook's team and my list of very simple questions as a follow-up to a Guardian report. They shouldn't be hard to answer, no trade secrets but a pretty simple and important filter for the largest source of news on the planet. /2
Here was my follow-up email to COO Sheryl Sandberg on November 2nd. I'll note that this was immediately prior to the election when Facebook reportedly "broke glass" and increased ranking for high-quality news. /3
Read 8 tweets
23 Sep
woah. youngsters rejecting Facebook's main "blue app" is known but I must say this study of gen z (16-24) shows it's more in free fall relative to gen y (25-40). also speaks to why data-sharing and control over FB's Instagram has been so critical to the company's market power. /1
that slide is from a new members-only study called Gen Z Digital Media Attitudes, Values & Behavior (digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2021/09/1…). dcn vp, research @Randeloo is avail for questions. DCN has been sharing some slides from it. here is a clean version w/out my markup. few more coming. /2
this one is on the effects of the pandemic on gen z and gen y. interesting to see how things are different for those who grew up in a world with devices and internet access in hands. /3
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22 Sep
In a company under global scrutiny for ethical lapses and a harmful core biz model, you don’t place your loyal lieutenant Andrew Bosworth in charge of all tech unless you’re preparing for war. Act accordingly. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This is the language of a company in PR crisis mode. As far as I know, Elliot Schrage (took fall for Definers) also still “works there.” A full exit leads to more questions - this is window dressing and a big deal.
And not to state the obvious but this would make me very uncomfortable if I testified to @CommonsDCMS.
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