Bam. Just now reading through 8 SEC complaints filed by Facebook Whistleblower. They're brutal, incredibly damning. My attention went to last one, "Facebook's Reach" as I'm very familiar with other parallel lawsuits. Also likely why Everson jumped ship... cbsnews.com/news/facebook-…
I see in these SEC whistleblower filings a # of connections into other civil lawsuits currently underway against Facebook. If the SEC launches an investigation and examines the entire body of evidence, including SEC's own settlement with Facebook, it will likely be very damning.
OK, I've now read two complaints. I need to crash but so far these are absolutely brutal, meticulous complaints to SEC. Facebook is toast; I can''t see how its leadership team is still in place fighting this. Let's look at "Facebook's Role in the 2020 Election and Insurrection"
This data. While Twitter proactively eliminated and added friction to reshares on certain posts, Facebook sat on this data? Absolutely put profit ahead of democracy and civil society.
"Over 50% of QAnon and Militarized Social Movements Groups are associated with a single subpopulation" ... yet they rolled back the changes which actually helped? Sheryl Sandberg should be called in front of Congress and DOJ for her post-1/6 interview to deceive the public.
Here is the record of the decision not to make changes prior to the 2020 election. From the reports, it appears they then made the changes to "break glass" immediately after the election when the Big Lie accelerated then they rolled them back leading to January 6th.
Here is the full whistleblower complaint covering Facebook's role in the 2020 election and January 6th. drive.google.com/file/d/1WPOaPE…
Here is a thread linking the full set of complaints to the SEC.

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5 Oct
the narrative that Facebook is awful but they can be better is extremely dangerous in this moment of global movement. It leads to regulation Facebook itself promotes rather than fixing governance, core surveillance capitalism biz model and market power issues of the company. /1
"the buck stops with Mark" - Facebook whistleblower with the exact same five words we heard from Facebook's CTO when he testified to UK Parliament in 2018 although oddly a Facebook executive last week would no longer say this. /2
Senator Blackburn just said "Facebook sells the data" [to advertisers] which is likely to trigger Facebook, Inc and its comms team. Reality is the definition of "sell" matters here and Facebook and Sheryl Sandberg have made it a 3rd rail, red line talking point since 2010. /3
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5 Oct
I deflected conspiracies today but now change my position. If I were Facebook and knew these eight SEC whistleblower complaints were being published today, I sure as hell would take down my own apps to distract the press.
They are deadly - way beyond what we've seen so far. /1
I'll thread them, every analyst, academic, journalist and regulator covering Facebook needs to review them and SEC needs to launch full investigation:

Facebook's role in the 2020 election and January 6 insurrection /2
drive.google.com/file/d/1WPOaPE…
Facebook's removal of hate speech /3 drive.google.com/file/d/1CZrCqy…
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4 Oct
Here is the difference. The amended case answers all the judge’s concerns. I wouldn’t let Facebook’s lobbyplex bragging about their initial win confuse you into confidence this case is going anywhere but forward.
Here is what I said when the lawsuit was filed six weeks ago.
Back to Facebook’s response to FTC. I’ve now read the fifty pages and it’s dumb. Sorry, that my shortest twitter-friendly word for it. Dumb. To believe the case shouldn’t move forward you need to believe … /3
Read 10 tweets
4 Oct
Pretty impressive rollout by Facebook whistleblower. She has stream-rolled over efforts by Facebook to control the narrative or create doubt in the reporting and her. Here is New York Times and Washington Post. /1
The two largest finance news sites and newspapers. /2
Network news again. /3
Read 4 tweets
3 Oct
hi @AdrienneLaF, I worry enough Facebook press didn't read your cover story yet -> Facebook needs to be treated like a "hostile foreign power." They're playing directly into Facebook's PR strategic response undermining a whistleblower risking it all. /1
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
with respect, I don't agree at all with allowing Clegg on Sunday morning shows. It is the equivalent of giving the head of PR at Brown and Williamson airtime the morning of Jeffrey Wigand's whistleblowing on 60 Minutes. If I was the whistleblower, I would be irate at this. /2
Meanwhile, another national news outlet just republished an internal memo written by Facebook PR broadly characterizing to FB employees what to expect on 60 Minutes tomorrow night. Do we not think that is exactly what Facebook wanted? Andrew Bosworth Lord of Rings memo 2.0 /3
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2 Oct
Because it’s going to get a lot worse. PR tip: 60 Minutes has a significantly larger audience (10mm+) than anything so far and will tease hearing. In addition, there are larger problems all coming at the same time. I’ll list them in no particular order:
1 - Texas lawsuit names Sandberg for possible criminal market rigging. DOJ expected to take up after new AAG expected to be confirmed this month.
2 - FTC just sued to break up their company into pieces. State AGs from every state in America are appealing to have their suit refiled.
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