Woah. So it looks like WSJ had six full decks on this one report about Instagram harms and they are incredibly impressive and thorough studies by Facebook’s own team. They deserve enormous attention - put them under the klieg lights please. /1
https://twitter.com/jeffhorwitz/status/1443397583645249541
While it appears WSJ was incredibly diligent, contacted all mentioned execs for comment, redacted personal info etc, they clearly had the goods and their report sure seems to have fairly represented the research - again by internal Facebook experts. /2
I mean one deck is more than 70 slides of quality intelligence on Instagram being a problem. This is indeed Jeffrey Wigand - and 60 Minutes will be introducing the whistleblower to world ahead of her testimony to it all under oath. FB assured Congress it wouldn’t retaliate. /3
Meanwhile Facebook:
- accused WSJ of deliberately mischaracterizing
- dropped one slide claiming reporting was based on it
- dropped two decks tonight, only one in substance from the six
- did a front-run on the press to cause confusion /4
- accused WSJ of deliberately mischaracterizing
- dropped one slide claiming reporting was based on it
- dropped two decks tonight, only one in substance from the six
- did a front-run on the press to cause confusion /4
So again, please put all attention on WSJ’s report, these six decks, reporting from other press, 60 Minutes and whistleblower testimony next week. As a bad actor, I wouldn’t give Facebook the time of day. /5
Finally, if I were Congress, I would reschedule tomorrow’s hearing. You won’t learn anything from FB employee. They agreed to it to get out their story first with Congress having no time to prepare as Zuckerberg did to u in 2018. Don’t be played @SenBlumenthal @MarshaBlackburn /6
I would let the 60 Minutes interview and the whistleblower testimony be what the world first hears to go with WSJ’s reporting. And I would let academics dig into the research next week to substantiate it and provide context for what is most vital. /7
And I would certainly expect more chips to fall. If I was in research, I would be resigning after being thrown under bus. Mosseri is DOA based on his deceptions about this. Clegg, Stone, Facebook PR have 0 cred left if they had any. Other major press will have more reports. /8
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