Sources: Facebook VP of ads Rob Goldman apologized internally for his tweetstorm about Russian interference, saying “I conveyed my view poorly”
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Discussion
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@om
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I love you Nick, but seriously if you think Rob wasn't doing Zuckerberg's bidding, aka tweeting with permission, let me interest you in a bridge in Manhattan for mere $100,000. The apology is a sham, just as original tweet was surgical. http://twitter.com/...
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@charliebeckett
Charlie Beckett
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“That's when, according to executives at the company, Facebook realized it was holding a shit sandwich.” http://www.wired.com/...
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@boztank
Emotional Support Boz
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We're here. Listening and learning more than speaking (as we should be) but will continue to try to be useful to conversations where we see opportunities.
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@mosseri
Adam Mosseri
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Still here, no plans to leave.
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@karaswisher
Kara Swisher
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Looks like Rob got hushed. (We like Rob, so let's hope he won't announce he now has to move to LA too to join that FB board member who has cast himself as Jean Valjean in SV's version of Les Miserables.) http://www.wired.com/...
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@conordougherty
Conor Dougherty
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A Facebook ad executive put out a Tweetstorm defending Facebook's role in Russia's disinformation campaign. A good deal of what he said, like a good deal of what a lot of tech execs say, turns out to be untrue. http://www.nytimes.com/...
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@cliffordlevy
Clifford Levy
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Brilliant @kevinroose: “A part of Facebook still sees itself as the bank that got robbed, rather than the architect who designed a bank with no safes, and no alarms or locks on the doors, and then acted surprised when burglars struck."http://www.nytimes.com/ ... http://twitter.co…
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@codinghorror
Jeff Atwood
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Nothing says “we totally weren't involved in these nutty political escapades!” like a series of eight political tweets from your VP of ads that end up fact checked by the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/...
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@avitalrachel
Avital Chizhik Goldschmidt
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It gets really meta when Facebook creates its own brand of disinformation *about* fake news. http://www.nytimes.com/...
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@nytpolitics
@nytpolitics
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We evaluated statements made by Rob Goldman, a vice president for ads at Facebook, in defending his company's role in Russian disinformation http://www.nytimes.com/...