Facebook had a very bad week. Again.

Facebook had a very bad week.

If it sounds familiar, it's probably because you've seen it before, maybe in March, maybe in September or maybe earlier this month, when the social media giant to cross a new storm of multiple scandals.

Here is an overview of the past week on Facebook and all that has made things so bad.

Facebook admitted last Wednesday to have hired a Republican opposition research firm tasked to search billionaire philanthropist George Soros, other critics of Facebook and its competitors, as announced in a New York Times survey week last.

Since then, the company's relationship with the company she hired, Definers Public Affairs, began last year when Facebook was under immense pressure to respond to Russia's interference in the election of 2016 on the platform.

Throughout this partnership, Definers has attempted to discredit Facebook's protesters by associating them with personalities such as Soros, a Democratic donor and longtime social media critic, which has fostered negative coverage of his Facebook rivals such as than Apple and Google.

Elliot Schrage, head of communications and politics for Facebook, took full responsibility for the scandal.

"The responsibility for these decisions rests with the communications team management. That's me. Mark and Sheryl counted on me to handle this without controversy, "he wrote referring to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, the two biggest faces of the society.

The system he created to manage such partnerships "failed here and I'm sorry I let you down," he added. "I regret my own failure here."

One of the groups targeted by the "Definers" is the racial justice organization Color of Change, which was founded by the son of Soros and who often collaborates with the anti-Facebook group Freedom From Facebook.

Now, in an effort to get closer to the group, Facebook has agreed to ask him to conduct an audit of human rights and security. Two external advisers will conduct a legal audit of its impact on underrepresented communities and communities of color, as well as an audit advising society on potential prejudices against conservative voices, Axios first reported .

But Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change, said he expected that they would need to lobby for Facebook to publish the results of the audit.

"This is only a first step," he said about the company that had agreed to be the subject of an investigation.

Sandberg met with the group on Tuesday to answer his questions. other requestsincluding Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president of global public policy, fired by a friend of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who attended his inauguration ceremony.

This week, Facebook is also trying to prevent UK lawmakers from publishing the company's internal legal documents that it had seized from another company as part of a lawsuit against Facebook.

The documents are believed to contain confidential emails about Facebook's data and privacy controls, and could more blatantly reveal how Facebook's privacy policy allowed Cambridge Analytica to obtain the personal data of $ 87 million. users.

The company was asked on Tuesday at a hearing before the UK Parliament of lawmakers from nine other countries as part of the investigation of the British selection commission, digital, cultural, media and sports on misinformation and false information .

Zuckerberg was a no show.

His absence looked "not so great," Richard Allan, vice president of Facebook for political solutions, told the legislature when he was asked, reported CNBC. He is also a member of the Upper House of Parliament, the House of Lords.

On Tuesday, a former Facebook employee publicly issued a long statement that was harshly criticizing the company for failures in the way it treated black employees and black platform users.

Mark Luckie, who is black and served as manager of strategic partners for global influencers with a focus on underrepresented voices, said that he had first distributed the letter to all employees Facebook earlier this month, a few days before his departure from the company.

"In some buildings, there are more" Black Lives Matter "posters than real blacks," he wrote. "Facebook can not pretend to connect communities if they are not proportionally represented in its workforce."

He also described a widespread problem of non-black people reporting messages written by black people to a "hate speech" in Facebook alerts, while these messages are often "intended to be positive efforts".

"Many black users think that their content is more likely to be deleted on the platform than any other group," he wrote. "Even though theories are mostly anecdotal, Facebook does not dissuade people from this idea."

Luckie's play is worth reading in its entirety.

On Monday, Sandberg, who was highly revered, was criticized by a Bloomberg article that contained reviews of eight current and former Facebook employees on his side of the company.

In the article, they tell stories of Sandberg who gives priority to his own relationships and his personal success on behalf of those of the company, ignoring the advice of his collaborators on how to manage the audience Congress on the interference of Russia in the US presidential election and surrounding employees. which protects it from criticism and bad news.

"It's so brutal to people that nobody wants to bring it anything," said one of the sources citing difficult discussions with Sandberg.