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• @macmccanntx Mac McCann on x

  “Facebook had long helped to create an economic system that rewarded publishers for sensationalism, not accuracy or depth.” http://www.wired.com/...

• @ia @ia on x

  “We traced the creation of the Facebook accounts to IP addresses at the Apple store a block away from the MySpace offices in Santa Monica...[then]to News Corp lawyers. When it comes to Facebook, Murdoch has been playing every angle he can for a long time.” http://www.wired.com/..…

• @om @om on x

  A major point to make about a fantastic @WIRED story on @facebook - it let's off FB too easy! FB is not the victim. They knew a lot more was up. I don't buy the internal handwringing at FB. Boy King isn't as innocent as it seems.

• @sg Sean Garrett on x

  I'd love to read the story behind this story and the interactions/horse trades w/ FB — which should be abundantly clear, is not super chill about pieces like this. It would tell me a lot about how they will truly address these issues. http://twitter.com/...

• @wblau Wolfgang Blau on x

  The accusations against Murdoch in this piece as well as Facebook's alleged countermeasures are staggering. https://www.wired.com/...

• @cindygallop Cindy Gallop on x

  ‘For the first time, Facebook insiders really began to question whether they had too much power. One employee told @WIRED that, watching Zuckerberg, he was reminded of Lennie in Of Mice and Men, the farm-worker with no understanding of his own strength.’ https://www.wired.com/...

• @emilystewartm Emily Stewart on x

  Rupert Murdoch's lawyers made fake sexual predator accounts on Facebook in 2007 to try to bump ... MySpace. https://www.wired.com/... pic.twitter.com/GBjF6tVgwS

• @danalexander21 Dan Alexander on x

  This is a remarkable story, but it glosses over two key facts: (1) Facebook stock is up 72% since 2016 and (2) Mark Zuckerberg has personally added about $25 billion to his fortune during those “two years of hell.” http://www.wired.com/...

• @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci on x

  So this Wired story pretty much confirmed for me what I'd been saying for a while (including before the election). Facebook got played and manipulated to not fix the egregious exploitation of its platform before the election. Plain and simple. http://www.wired.com/... http://twit…

• @marshacollier Marsha Collier on x

  #Facebook Employee Asked A Reporter To Turn Off His Phone so Facebook Couldn't Track Its Location “How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.” via @wired http://www.wired.com/...

• @noupside Renee DiResta on x

  This exceptional Wired story covers the last 2 yrs of investigations of disinformation, from both inside & outside FB. So many important points. Even as someone who was part of it, I learned new things ab what was happening on the other side. Must read. http://bit.ly/2HbgksH pic.…

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  My takeaway from this giant Wired story is that we could be in a much different timeline if Facebook had treated its contract workers a little better. http://www.wired.com/... http://twitter.com/...

• @dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x

  Good work here. Ties a lot of threads together to show how messy these last two years have been. http://twitter.com/...