Finally be heard. and live video and you should have seen this coming. yes but it also enabled diamond reynolds to show the world what was happening to her partner when he was shot by police. it gave her a power that wouldn t have existed in old media. we have to look at the balances here. yes, there are maligned actors who use this in bad ways. we throw out those tools and potentially throw out the power it gives people. no one is talking about throwing out the rule tools but having rules of the road. right after they did that in conversation with law enforcement, she ended up dead without the live stream happening. facebook i ve been in deep back and forth from everyone with sheryl sandberg on down. they hired definers to attack my
Facebook, for example, quote, raises concern that the company could improperly or illegally use its vast financial and data resources against government officials and critics seeking to protect the public and our democracy. that was a letter to mark zuckerberg of facebook. did you hear back from him? it s a letter you penned with other democratic senators. we have not heard back any extensive answer here from them, and definers, the company they had hired and then had terminated. and that was, of course, this issue that we found out that they had hired this company to do opo research, but then we found out that charts were issued that were to journalists that basically undermined elected officials before a hearing. we found out that they had gone after their critics like george soros and used their own platform to spread it as far as we can see. we re just trying to get to the bottom of this to determine if there were any campaign
Research into why a billionaire is saying such bad things about their company is not that unusual. and most coos would want to know backgrounds into what is going on. the issue here is sort of the shifting stories and shifting narratives we re hearing from facebook about how much sandberg knew, how involved she was in the research into george soros, and what that says about facebook s leadership at this moment. let s go back. a few weeks ago, woo had the new york times investigation about sheryl sandberg, mark zuckerberg and the leadership at facebook, and they hired definers to do public relations for them. they said you should look into george corose and his campaigns against facebook, which some people said fed into these anti-semitic tropes and conspiracy theories. last week, we had the night before thanksgiving where the head of communications for facebook, the outgoing head of communications took the fall for all this, that it was his fault. he hired definers.
And sheryl sandberg said i might have gotten e-mails about this. then in the last few hours we re getting from facebook that sandberg herself had directed some research into this. now, facebook is keeping these two things separate, definers and sheryl sandberg. let me read to you a statement from what facebook said. as elliott said last week, we researched potential motivations behind soros s criticisms of facebook in 2018. he is a prominent investor and we looked into his investments and trading activity. that research was under way when sheryl send an e-mail asking if mr. soros had shorted facebook stock. as she said before, she takes full responsibility for any activity that happened on her watch. not unusual for a coo to do this, but the issue is the shifting narrative of how this was done. thank you for updating us. happening now, president trump is attending the welcome ceremony at the g-20 summit in argentina. all of this as he s trying to
Questions linger about how she was involved. the new york times reported sandberg played a central role. sandberg received e-mails about the definers after saying she did not know facebook hired the firm. the company asked definers to work on george soros as they describes it a menace on society. facebook did not respond to a request for comment. it is thanksgiving. get ready for football and food. the bears play detroit at 12:30 and then redskins and cowboys. then the falcons and saints tonight. we should mention the bears, but their starting quarterback as well, playing with chase daniel. i like the bears in that one. who do you like?
One former employee describes as an in house fake news shop. pushing back against facebook critics in part by linking critics to liberal f george soro congratulations on the story. i read it with great interest and worth noting facebook quickly overnight that night fired definers public affairs in the wake of the story. what in your view is sort of the most telling or important thing you discovered in the course of this and do you think that facebook is actually at this point changing their ways or are they just digging in? kasie, this was the work of five reporters over many months. what we found was a pattern where this important and
Congratulations on the story. i read it with great interest and worth noting facebook quickly overnight that night fired definers public affairs in the wake of the story. what in your view is sort of the most telling or important thing you discovered in the course of this and do you think that facebook is actually at this point changing their ways or are they just digging in? kasie, this was the work of five reporters over many months. what we found was a pattern where this important and powerful and wealthy and profitable company kept makes mistakes covering them up and pushing back on critics and trying to get the heat taken off instead of solving the problem quickly. i think they are doing some things to solve the problems with russian misinformation and
The firm linked the groups to george soros. our next guest represents one of the groups allegedly targeted by that opposition research company rashad robinson, president of color change is joining us. thank you for of having me. the color change has really criticized facebook for sometime over what you call discriminatory practices and urging to keep hate speech off of its platform. were you surprised it hired this dining room, t firm, definers and what you call anti-semitic propaganda on behalf of facebook? we were absolutely surprised. we have been sitting across the table with facebook in good faith, having conversations, talking about a path forward, working with them on the civil rights audit that they were in the middle of or in the middle of really looking at all of their policies and practices.
Switch. definers wrote articles attacking google and apple and downplaying how facebook was effected by russian interference. zuckerberg said he learned of the work when he read the report. i said i got on the phone with our team and we are no longer working with the team. ceo sheryl sandberg wrote on the platform thursday at facebook we are making the investments we need to stamp out the issues. this mission is critical and i am committed to seeing it through. in a statement provided to cnn, a spokesperson for the times says the article is accurate. it is worth a read. it is a lack of ability to deal with the russia issue on facebook. first lady melania trump taking on critics of her mission
Experiences. switching gears for a moment, facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg is claiming ignorance on the heel s of the new york time s latest bombshell piece that zeroed in on efforts to suppress data breaches ahead of the 2016 election. zuckerberg defended the social media site as innocent saying that, quote, to suggest that we weren t interested in knowing the truth or that we wanted to hide what we knew or that we wanted to prevent investigations is simply untrue. zuckerberg claims he learned of facebook s work with defining public affairs and has since cut ties with them. facebook worked with definers to spin anti-semitic narratives against some of its critics like george soros. it also claims that cheryl sandberg was the brains behind the decision although zuckerberg said she was not involved. in the wake of the times report