Civil rights leaders went into a call with Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg tonight with low expectations. They were not disappointed. Mark didn't comprehend/accept history of voter suppression and that Trump's tweets could stoke violence against demonstrators. More to come
Wow. Remarkable statement. So much tension between White House and Facebook right now. Heard from a source that WH incredibly frustrated after months of asking FB for data on vaccine misinfo that company, despite saying in public they want to work with WH, isn't sharing
Attendees included Vanita Gupta of National Leadership Conference, Rashad Robinson of Color of Change, and Sherillyn Iffill of NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Our story today:
We're following up tomorrow. FB employees: as always, email or call (DM for signal)
NYPD says 65-year-old Asian American woman was walking to church this morning when suspect assaulted her and said “f*** you, you don’t belong here.” Happened in front of 360 W. 43rd St. 11:40am. Sources say building security guard not only failed to render her aid... 1/2
NEW: Big Antitrust Crusader Joins White House
@POTUS
Biden To Appoint Tim Wu, A Leading Critic of Big Tech, as Tech & Competition Policy Special Assistant to the President.
FB's Sandberg January 14: "...I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don't have our abilities to stop hate and don't have our standards and don't have our transparency."
It's incredible that Mark Zuckerberg hasn't addressed the Whistleblower's damning reveals. When there is a crisis - plane crash, product defect - a CEO always addresses employees and the public. Where is Zuckerberg?
The first hate crime casualty after 9/11 was a Sikh named Balbir Singh Sodhi, murdered by a man who thought Balbir was Muslim
On The Daily Show, Hasan Minhaj asked, “Why don't you just go “Hey—I'm not Muslim.”
This was my response. I hope you’ll join us.
BREAKING: FTC + 48 States attorneys sue Facebook, alleging the company illegally crushes smaller rivals and competition — They're calling for the SPIN-OFF of Instagram and WhatsApp, a move that Zuckerberg has called "existential" for FB
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@ceciliakang
Feel the need to be Twitter police on this: KPOP fans are not just in South Korea. This is not a foreign thing. They are a global, including in U.S. with huge multiethnic following. Thank you. That is all.
In what may be the first time in American history, a Black family has had property returned to them by the government, Los Angeles County Votes to Return Beach Seized in 1924 From a Black Family
Wow - the daughter of MLK speaks out against Zuckerberg's analysis of free speech and civil rights here. Bernice King is not alone. Several civil rights leaders say Mark Zuckerberg does not appear to understand the harms the FB's hands-off approach of platforms.
I heard
#MarkZuckerberg
's ‘free expression’ speech, in which he referenced my father. I'd like to help Facebook better understand the challenges
#MLK
faced from disinformation campaigns launched by politicians. These campaigns created an atmosphere for his assassination.
Reminder: A thing about FB's 2-week Trump ban:
If Trump declares a 2024 run on inauguration day, he will remain a public figure and he will be afforded broad political speech privileges on Facebook.
So there's that
Explode the Model Minority Myth:
Asians have the greatest income inequality of any other group - there is great poverty, low education rates, lack of healthcare among Asians.
Statement from President Trump: As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me...
Buffy Wicks, a California Assemblywoman from Oakland, was told that having a newborn wasn’t a good enough excuse to vote by proxy due to Covid-19 concerns.
So she drove from Oakland to Sacramento with her baby to vote on critical eviction legislation.
@JoeBiden
campaign blasts Facebook for allowing a manipulated video of Biden - that was shared by Trump and officials - to circulate this weekend. Scathing rebuke
Story on the way
To suit is focused on Google's search. And it will allege Google used contracts to make its search engine the default and pre-loaded, locking out competitors
Scoop: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu shared with his cabinet a video he claimed was evidence of Iran concealing coronavirus deaths by dropping bodies in garbage dumps. Hours later, his office realized it was actually a clip from a 2007 Hallmark mini-series
NEW: Scores of Tech CEO hearings (including this week) have resulted in zero new laws.
It turns out, holding hearings to humble the world’s most powerful Tech CEOs is much easier than legislating
via
@NYTimes
NEW: How PizzaGate Returned. New audiences and a dangerous daisy-chain of social media giving it new life. The harms are real: death threats into Comet on the rise: w/
@sheeraf
"I'm convinced that right now," Obama said, "one of the biggest reasons for democracies weakening is the profound change that's taken place in how we communicate and consume information."
Obama speaking now at Stanford
Our story w
@stevenleemyers
New: Desperate for Wi-Fi, Many Have Nowhere to Go but a Parking Lot. How Covid has exposed the still gaping digital divide and how the Internet is an essential utility:
Obama on McConnell packs an accurate punch: What McConnell “lacked in charisma or interest in policy he more than made up for in discipline, shrewdness and shamelessness — all of which he employed in the single-minded and dispassionate pursuit of power.”
Where are Mark and Sheryl?
Zuckerberg hasn't posted in days
Sandberg's post from 9/29 has scalding comments 👀
@Mosseri
has been MIA since his week on Today Show and the Met Gala red carpet
latest on internal turmoil by
@MikeIsaac
@sheeraf
@RMac18
Updated: Twitter has blocked the Trump Campaign from tweeting until they remove the offending tweet. This is standard. For now it is hidden behind a warning.
Almost too many infuriating details in “An Ugly Truth” to pick out a single quote, but this bit about Facebook trying to portray a “Muslims for Clinton” ad Russia ran in 2016 as “pro-Clinton” really says it all when it comes to the company’s evasion.
This House hearing on disinfo & extremism in cable media is quite something. Right now
@soledadobrien
naming names and telling all. She's going through history of the "truth decay" and notes Lou Dobbs egregious report blaming leprocy on illegal immigrants.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn today asked if a Google engineer who has criticized her still has a job.
“He has had very unkind things to say about me and I was just wondering if you all had still kept him working there," she said
NEW: Biden's "They're killing people" remark comes after months of frustration over Facebook. Inside the meetings between the White House and Facebook w/
@KannoYoungs
A thread 🧵on our front page Facebook story today:
We heard this a "Big Tobacco Moment"
This won't be a "moment," but more like a very long fight to regulate FB and big tech.
Here's what to expect, how the analogy works and doesn't. 1/
On July 27, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai will testify together for the House antitrust subcommittee hearing on Big Tech competition. 🍿🍿🍿
blow up the myth:
my parents never pressured me to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer and never pressured me on grades.
also, our electricity was a turned off a few times b/c we couldn't pay the bill
FIRST GLIMPSE of our book An Ugly Truth: starting with the frayed partnership of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. With
@sheeraf
Much more to come. Book lands July 13.
PRECIOUS CARGO:
Our book is in my hands! And it feels sooo good. AN UGLY TRUTH, our investigation of Facebook, comes out July 13 but is available now for preorder:
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@sheeraf
FTC names Olivier Sylvain Senior Advisor to Chair Lina Khan. He is one of our country’s leading scholars on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, per internal memo
This one hits hard. I and other parents of teens have long complained about the devastating effect Instagram can have on so many youth.
Now
@WSJ
has the receipts that Facebook knew for years that Instagram has been on boil on youth culture.
via
@WSJ
Sick to my stomach. My Asian colleagues are afraid to take the subway and even walk their neighborhoods. I've told family and friends in NYC to only travel in groups.
We said Zuckerberg would be on the defensive and admit that Facebook has a trust issue. That have been an understatement. This is a very tough grilling so far:
California sues Facebook for information in privacy investigation, says Facebook has refused to cooperate with subpoenas and docs on Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg:
With documents obtained by
@RMac18
@sheeraf
and from the whistleblower, a harrowing look at how employees raised red flags for many months before the Jan. 6 Riots - to public shrugs from top leaders
NEW:
"Seriously? People are literally dying" - White House officials texted each other as Facebook deflected during vaccine misinformation talks.
What led Biden to say Facebook was "killing people?"
@KannoYoungs
and I show the months long battle