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Late Wednesday, Facebook admitted to using the services of Definers Public Affairs to research and disseminate information on George Soros' fundraising activities. BLOOMBERG NEWS
Facebook announced Wednesday night that it had asked Definers Public Affairs to review George Soros' financing activities after the billionaire philanthropist had called the social network a "threat to society" in early 2018 and Facebook had called for a more thorough investigation of his detractors.
"We had never heard of such criticisms before and we wanted to know if he had any financial motivation," wrote outbound communications chief Elliot Schrage. Facebook Blog. He added that, at Facebook's request, Definers had investigated groups in the "Freedom from Facebook" campaign and learned that Soros was funding several coalition members. The Definitors then relayed this information to the media to show that "it was not just a spontaneous popular movement".
The admission, made on the eve of Thanksgiving, corroborates some of the reports in an explosion New York Times& nbsp; investigation& nbsp; which explains in detail how Facebook has engaged the opposition research firm to counter criticism of its role in spreading Russian misinformation and exposing its users to Cambridge Analytica, which targets political ads.
Soros' Open Society Foundations have criticized this tactic, which included distributing information via a partner site called NTK. Facebook's top executives found themselves in a now familiar position: they defended the way they handled the internal knowledge that outside companies were abusing the business of its 2.3 billion users for influence the elections.
The & nbsp;Times & nbsp;says & nbsp; Facebook staff & nbsp; In spring 2016, more than a year before making this information public, Russian hackers had used the platform to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and as the general manager of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and the director of operations, Sheryl Sandberg, decided to publicly downplay their concerns about the interference. . When Facebook finally revealed, in the fall of 2017, that a Kremlin-related operation had touched nearly 150 million users with fake messages in order to influence the company's business. In the 2016 election, Facebook launched an intensive lobbying and public relations campaign to minimize criticism, including hiring Definers.
Zuckerberg and Sandberg denied having learned last week to have hired the Washington-based public relations firm, run by veterans of politics, who worked for Republican lawmakers such as Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio. Part of his work has been well-known to the media since Facebook began, in October 2017, to use the company for opinions and events even though the scale of this work – including the 39, use of an information site for affiliates to disseminate negative articles about rivals or criticism of its customers – was not. After the newspaper has published its report, Facebook fired & nbsp;Definers.
Schrage, who said he had taken responsibility on Wednesday to decide what Definers would do, also said that the company had also used the company to investigate Facebook's competitors.
Some of the most virulent critics that followed the Time The report focused on Definers' information campaign on Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic campaigns that put him at the center of conspiracy theories, such as that of orchestrating the migrant caravan heading for the US border.
"As innocent as you can choose to portray him publicly, pushing the trope of the Jewish" puppet masters "was intentional," wrote Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, in a letter shared by the media with Zuckerberg and Sandberg.
Defenders spread reports that Soros was a funder of Color of Change, a civil rights organization that was part of the Freedom From Facebook coalition, the source said. Time report.
This approach, championed by Facebook as a mere search for public information, has a more sinister intent, said the non-profit organization. "It has been torn from a reading book of the centuries being and is directly related to attempts to undermine the civil rights movement in the 1960s," Robinson said.
Sandberg talks about Soros
Sandberg, in the same blog as Schrage, said: "No one has ever intended to make an anti-Semitic account against Mr. Soros or anyone else. fundamental element of my personality and our society is firmly opposed to hatred.The idea that our work has been interpreted as anti-Semitic is for me odious and deeply personal. "
Definers, who said a Facebook critics survey was a small part of his job for Facebook, issued a new statement Wednesday that calling his research on Soros a "campaign". defamation "against Mr. Soros and anti-Facebook groups is totally false an unfortunate part of the story."
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Late Wednesday, Facebook admitted to using the services of Definers Public Affairs to research and disseminate information on George Soros' fundraising activities. BLOOMBERG NEWS
Facebook announced Wednesday night that it had asked Definers Public Affairs to review George Soros' financing activities after the billionaire philanthropist had called the social network a "threat to society" in early 2018 and Facebook had called for a more thorough investigation of his detractors.
"We had never heard of such criticisms before and we wanted to know if he had any financial motivation," wrote outgoing communications manager Elliot Schrage on the Facebook blog. He added that, at Facebook's request, Definers had investigated groups in the "Freedom from Facebook" campaign and learned that Soros was funding several coalition members. The Definitors then relayed this information to the media to show that "it was not just a spontaneous popular movement".
The admission, made on the eve of Thanksgiving, corroborates some of the reports in an explosion New York Times An investigation that details how Facebook hired the opposition research firm to counter criticism of its role in spreading Russian misinformation and exposing its users to Cambridge Analytica, a company that targets political ads.
Soros' Open Society Foundations have criticized this tactic, which included distributing information via a partner site called NTK. Facebook's top executives found themselves in a now familiar position: they defended the way they handled the internal knowledge that outside companies were abusing the business of its 2.3 billion users for influence the elections.
the Time Facebook staff was aware, in the spring of 2016, more than a year before publication of the revelations, that Russian hackers had used the platform to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Operations Manager Sheryl Sandberg decided to publicly downplay their concerns. When Facebook finally revealed, in the fall of 2017, that a Kremlin – related operation had touched on fake messages to nearly 150 million users in order to influence them. In the 2016 election, Facebook launched an intensive lobbying and public relations campaign aimed at minimizing criticism, particularly by engaging Definisseurs.
Zuckerberg and Sandberg denied having learned last week to have hired the Washington-based public relations firm, run by veterans of politics, who worked for Republican lawmakers such as Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio. Part of his work has been well-known to the media since Facebook began, in October 2017, to use the company for opinions and events even though the scale of this work – including the 39, use of an information site for affiliates to disseminate negative articles about rivals or criticism of its customers – was not. After the newspaper published its report, Facebook returned the Definers.
Schrage, who said he had taken responsibility on Wednesday to decide what Definers would do, also said that the company had also used the company to investigate Facebook's competitors.
Some of the most virulent critics that followed the Time The report focused on Definers' information campaign on Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic campaigns that put him at the center of conspiracy theories, such as that of orchestrating the migrant caravan heading for the US border.
"As innocent as you can choose to portray him publicly, pushing the trope of the Jewish" puppet masters "was intentional," wrote Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, in a letter shared by the media with Zuckerberg and Sandberg.
Defenders spread reports that Soros was a funder of Color of Change, a civil rights organization that was part of the Freedom From Facebook coalition, the source said. Time report.
This approach, championed by Facebook as a mere search for public information, has a more sinister intent, said the non-profit organization. "It has been torn from a reading book of the centuries being and is directly related to attempts to undermine the civil rights movement in the 1960s," Robinson said.
Sandberg talks about Soros
Sandberg, in the same blog as Schrage, said: "No one has ever intended to make an anti-Semitic account against Mr. Soros or anyone else. fundamental element of my personality and our society is firmly opposed to hatred.The idea that our work has been interpreted as anti-Semitic is for me odious and deeply personal. "
Definers, who said a Facebook critics survey was a small part of his job for Facebook, issued a new statement Wednesday that calling his research on Soros a "campaign". defamation "against Mr. Soros and anti-Facebook groups is totally false an unfortunate part of the story."
