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> * hiring Republican lobbyists to make a good name for FB ??? There's an entire paragraph in her post about that. > * Sen. Schumer’s apparently personal invo

> * hiring Republican lobbyists to make a good name for FB ??? There's an entire paragraph in her post about that. > * Sen. Schumer’s apparently personal involvement in protecting FB True, she didn't address that. It doesn't really seem to be one of the major issues people have found offensive. > * the firing of Alex Stamos, who surfaced Russian Inflirtration The NYTimes never claimed that Stamos was fired (and, afaik, no reputable source has).

pm90 8y ago
A social media company getting the Senate leader of one of the 2 major parties in the US on their side is a huge fucking deal. The Stamos firing is mentioned prominently in the article. He seems like the only person with the guts to speak truth to power... and he was fired, his career basically ended, for exposing the truth of a foreign Governments malicious interference? Come on man... this is HUGE. The message She sent with Stamos’ firing was: if you get in the way of our growth, we will git ya. And she hasn’t addressed that in this post.
- cjhopman 8y ago
  Dude, you're full of shit. The article makes only this claim about Stamos's departure from Facebook: "Mr. Stamos and other high-profile executives have left after disputes over Facebook’s priorities"
- cjhopman 8y ago
  > A social media company getting the Senate leader of one of the 2 major parties in the US on their side is a huge fucking deal. Odd then that in the many comments on this very website discussing the original article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958), the terms "Schumer", "Senator", "Senate", and "Sen." never appear.
jakelazaroff 8y ago
Wait, I'm confused — I don't see anything about Republican lobbyists in her post. She writes about the Republican PR firm Definers, but nothing about Joel Kaplan, et al. From the NYT article [1]: > Ms. Sandberg installed another friend, a well-connected Republican: Joel Kaplan, who had attended Harvard with Ms. Sandberg and later served in the George W. Bush administration. > Mr. Kaplan prevailed on Ms. Sandberg to promote Kevin Martin, a former Federal Communications Commission chairman and fellow Bush administration veteran, to lead the company’s American lobbying efforts. She also doesn't address the allegation that she limited the Russia investigation so as not to appear to sympathize with Democrats: > If Facebook implicated Russia further, Mr. Kaplan said, Republicans would accuse the company of siding with Democrats. [...] Ms. Sandberg sided with Mr. Kaplan, recalled four people involved. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...

pm90 8y ago

A social media company getting the Senate leader of one of the 2 major parties in the US on their side is a huge fucking deal. The Stamos firing is mentioned prominently in the article. He seems like the only person with the guts to speak truth to power... and he was fired, his career basically ended, for exposing the truth of a foreign Governments malicious interference? Come on man... this is HUGE. The message She sent with Stamos’ firing was: if you get in the way of our growth, we will git ya. And she hasn’t addressed that in this post.

cjhopman 8y ago
Dude, you're full of shit. The article makes only this claim about Stamos's departure from Facebook: "Mr. Stamos and other high-profile executives have left after disputes over Facebook’s priorities"
cjhopman 8y ago
> A social media company getting the Senate leader of one of the 2 major parties in the US on their side is a huge fucking deal. Odd then that in the many comments on this very website discussing the original article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18453958), the terms "Schumer", "Senator", "Senate", and "Sen." never appear.

jakelazaroff 8y ago

Wait, I'm confused — I don't see anything about Republican lobbyists in her post. She writes about the Republican PR firm Definers, but nothing about Joel Kaplan, et al. From the NYT article [1]: > Ms. Sandberg installed another friend, a well-connected Republican: Joel Kaplan, who had attended Harvard with Ms. Sandberg and later served in the George W. Bush administration. > Mr. Kaplan prevailed on Ms. Sandberg to promote Kevin Martin, a former Federal Communications Commission chairman and fellow Bush administration veteran, to lead the company’s American lobbying efforts. She also doesn't address the allegation that she limited the Russia investigation so as not to appear to sympathize with Democrats: > If Facebook implicated Russia further, Mr. Kaplan said, Republicans would accuse the company of siding with Democrats. [...] Ms. Sandberg sided with Mr. Kaplan, recalled four people involved. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...