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Facebook executive helped Cuomo smear sex-harassment accuser: AG report
- pjc50 5y agoDo we have another source for this that's slightly less political than the NY post? Possibly a primary one for the AG report in question?
- zo1 5y agoThe AG report is in the link: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.08.03_nyag_-_investigative_report.pdf https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.08.03_nyag_-_inve...
- ianhawes 5y agoThank you for actually linking this. I hadn’t read parts of it before today and to be honest, like most things, the prepared evidence is more damning than any summary in the media. I strongly feel that Cuomo should be impeached after reading about his behavior.
- stefan_ 5y agoMr. Azzopardi also sent the Confidential Files to Ed McKinley of the Times Union924 and David Caruso of the Associated Press, among others, on the same day.925 Earlier on December 13, Mr. Azzopardi had sent the Confidential Files to former Executive Chamber staff, Josh Vlasto, Mr. Bamberger, Ms. Lever, and Steve Cohen. At the direction of Ms. DeRosa or Mr. Azzopardi, Mr. Bamberger and Ms. Lever coordinated with some of the reporters who received the documents to let them know that the Executive Chamber would be sending them. That took me all of 5 minutes to find and I guess being lazy in complaining about lazy reporting is the ultimate irony?
- pessimizer 5y ago> lazy reporting Politically partisan reporting, not lazy reporting.
- read_if_gay_ 5y agoAny major newspaper is partisan nowadays. Weird that people will only ask for alternative sources in certain newspapers.
- koheripbal 5y agoBias is not a binary value. There are sources which are more or less biased, and we should strive to reward and share the journalists that try to guard their less-biased reputations.
- ekianjo 5y agowhich source is less biased than others?
- babyblueblanket 5y agoReuters, Axios, AP news?
- orhmeh09 5y agoI have read enough biased statements in the above publications and am aware of enough of their internal politics to see possible motives in their reporting -- such as who they hire: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/authors/dawn-scalici/ https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/authors/dawn-scal... > Dawn Scalici joined Thomson Reuters in July 2015 to serve as the company’s first Government Global Business Director. She is charged with the responsibility of advancing Thomson Reuters’ ability to meet the disparate needs of the U.S. Government—working across the company’s major business lines and optimally leveraging its vast and unique data, products, and services. In this capacity she develops strategic relationships with government sector constituents and key decision-makers, develops campaigns to promote Thomson Reuters’ business growth, and works with the company’s senior executives to determine relevant strategic goals and plans. > Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Ms. Scalici served 33 years with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In her last federal assignment, she served as the National Intelligence Manager for the Western Hemisphere within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In this role, she was responsible for overseeing national intelligence for an area of responsibility spanning from the Arctic to the tip of South America, including the US Homeland. > Ms. Scalici serves on the Board of Directors for the Association for International Risk Intelligence Professionals and on the Board of Advisors of the Momentum Aviation Group (MAG). She also serves on the Intelligence Committee of the Arms Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Homeland Security Intelligence Council of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA).
- cascom 5y agoThese days I’m not sure there is such a thing (or at least it’s a short list) https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
- busymom0 5y agoI don't think that site is accurate. NPR and Newsweek are "centre"? A brief list of just a few recent NPR reports: > “Billie Eilish Says She Is Sorry After TikTok Video Shows Her Mouthing A Racist Slur.” Pop star caught on tape using the word “chink” when she was “13 or 14 years old” triggers international outrage and expenditure of U.S. national media funding. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1009042029/billie-eilish-says-she-is-sorry-after-an-old-video-shows-her-mouthing-a-racist-s https://www.npr.org/2021/06/22/1009042029/billie-eilish-says... > “Black TikTok Creators Are On Strike To Protest A Lack Of Credit For Their Work.” White TikTok users dance to Nicky Minaj lyrics like, “I'm a f*** Black Barbie. Pretty face, perfect body,” kicking off “a debate about cultural appropriation on the app.” https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011899328/black-tiktok-creators-are-on-strike-to-protest-a-lack-of-credit-for-their-work https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1011899328/black-tiktok-creat... > “Geocaching While Black: Outdoor Pastime Reveals Racism And Bias.” Area man who plays GPS-based treasure hunt game requiring forays into remote places and private property describes “horrifying” experience of people asking what he’s doing. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/11/1009560739/geocaching-while-black-outdoor-pastime-reveals-racism-and-bias https://www.npr.org/2021/07/11/1009560739/geocaching-while-b... > “Broadway Is Reopening This Fall, And Every New Play Is By A Black Writer.” All seven new plays being written by black writers is “a step toward progress,” but critics “will be watching Broadway's next moves” to make sure “momentum” continues. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/10/1014238639/broadway-fall-new-plays-black-writers https://www.npr.org/2021/07/10/1014238639/broadway-fall-new-... > “She Struggled To Reclaim Her Indigenous Name. She Hopes Others Have It Easier.” It took Cold Lake First Nations member Danita Bilozaze nine whole months to change her name to reflect her Indigenous identity. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/04/1007737459/canada-indigenous-names-reconciliation-schools https://www.npr.org/2021/07/04/1007737459/canada-indigenous-... > “Tom Hanks Is A Non-Racist. It's Time For Him To Be Anti-Racist.” Tom Hanks pushing for more widespread teaching of the Tulsa massacre doesn’t change the fact that he’s built a career playing “white men ‘doing the right thing,’” NPR complains. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/13/1005725990/tom-hanks-is-a-non-racist-its-time-for-him-to-be-anti-racist https://www.npr.org/2021/06/13/1005725990/tom-hanks-is-a-non... > Monuments And Teams Have Changed Names As America Reckons With Racism, Birds Are Next https://www.npr.org/2021/06/05/1002944505/monuments-and-teams-have-changed-names-as-america-reckons-with-racism-birds-are- https://www.npr.org/2021/06/05/1002944505/monuments-and-team... Source: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/nprs-brilliant-self-own https://taibbi.substack.com/p/nprs-brilliant-self-own
- busterarm 5y agoYou've got Cuomo getting an assist in smearing his accusers from both CNN and Facebook, two companies with some of the widest media reach on the frigging planet, and you're complaining about the bias of the NY Post in reporting it?
- cwizou 5y agoSorry for the offtopic, but having a working CNN anchor drafting statements and advising someone very much in the news without taking a leave of absence of his job, that's certainly an insanely low bar on journalistic ethics : https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/biden-calls-andrew-cuomo-resign-he-s-not-only-cuomo-n1275856?icid=msd_topgrid https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/biden-calls-andrew-cuomo-resig... There are always double standards for journalistic ethics for primetime anchors, it's certainly not a CNN nor even a US only thing, but this one is a bit too egregious to spin, surely ? I would love to hear the discussions going on on the international side of CNN (which I would argue has fairly high standards to reporting)...
- pupdogg 5y agoYou'll have to venture into space to explore other inhabitable planets to find such publication!
- losvedir 5y agoHad to scroll down quite a ways but I'm glad someone asked. I assume people here wouldn't be taking, e.g. this story[0] at face value. When that one came out I figured it was "big if real", but I decided it wasn't real and from then on realized the NYPost is not to be trusted. [0] https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-voter-fraud-with-mail-in-ballots/ https://nypost.com/2020/08/29/political-insider-explains-vot...
- notsureaboutpg 5y agoWhy trust CNN then who had Cuomo's literal brother puff him up with softball interviews about their mom and their good boyhood times at home while he was killing nursing home patients and knowing he was preying on women in his staff?
- raxxorrax 5y agoLike the NYT that printed excuses for him? I think partisanship is a reality in the US everyone has to accept, but this would sound extremely different if it was about Kavanaugh. Maybe a Supreme Court Justice is more important than a NY gouverneur, but I don't really trust any newspaper in the US to be "less political". Funnily now people call for keeping politics out of it. In politics. This isn't about general media anymore.
- kwere 5y agoWhy Is Cuomo still able to keep Office despite being the incarnation of corrupt politician? Who are his supporters/backers ?
- mc32 5y agoAnd where are all the Kavanaugh detractors making noise about Cuomo? I'm also interested in seeing Anderson Cooper trot out the accusers and interview them about Cuomo.
- alistairSH 5y agoFWIW, every liberal I know wants Cuomo out of office. I don't know any Cuomo supporters outside of the NY Democratic political machine.
- mc32 5y agoI agree most “desire” to have him out. But they’re not making noisy rackets in the street demanding immediate removal (either when these things initially came out like 10 months ago or now).
- vkou 5y agoIf you're going to compare apples to apples, shouldn't you be contrasting the Republican party's response to that appointment, with the Democratic party's response to Cuomo? I, uh, don't recall either Trump or Mitch McConnel demanding that Kavanaugh withdraw his bid. Both Biden and Pelosi, however, have called for Cuomo's resignation. It's strange how the Republican party seems to be unwilling to hold itself to a much lower standard than what they demand from Democrats.
- iammisc 5y agoOkay but if you recall with kavanaugh, left wing insurrectionists were storming the supreme court building. Where are the activists? Or are they only called out for the gop?
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- gentle 5y agoGod, the NY Post is absolute shit.
- muglug 5y agoThis is a dumb headline. She wasn’t working in her capacity as a FB exec. She was working as a loyal former aide.
- cle 5y agoThat's a plausible hypothesis, but from the information given I can't really conclude that (nor the converse). It's worth investigating her role further to find out.
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- IG_Semmelweiss 5y agoShe may have been doing cuomo work on the clock but i generally agreew with your statement At first stance it looked rsther bad but having read the article its much more flimsy. However the optics of this happening are bad for fb and i dont think its unreasonable for fb to act against her.
- busterarm 5y agoAnd for that same reason, Facebook's shareholders should be demanding her head on a platter. It's still extremely newsworthy.
- muglug 5y agoUnless she used her official FB email to send these docs I don't see why it would be much of a scandal. Probably won't help her career progression at FB, though.
- busterarm 5y agoThis is something that applies to managers but especially to executives: You are a representative of the company at all times. Especially in a communications role, you are the corporate mouthpiece. All of your actions are under extreme scrutiny and you should behave accordingly. More importantly, Facebook has to deal with sexual harassment allegations internally on their own all the time. If this is supposed to be acceptable behavior among Facebook's executives with regard to accusers, then I as an opposing counsel in a lawsuit with Facebook would be grinning from ear to ear right now. Odds are Facebook is about to settle on a handful of claims, even potentially-bullshit ones. And that's why shareholders should be out with pitchforks.
- IG_Semmelweiss 5y agoA downside to the cuomo allegations is that cuomo was the only sane voice left protecting nyc, from further mismanagement by diblasio and pals. The city mayor is so unpopular that The only thing stopping a recall is that he's going to be leaving office soon. Cuomo has got to go for sure, hes now too weak to keep diblasio & pals in check
- xadhominemx 5y agoWithin nyc, De Blasio is not that much more unpopular than Cuomo, and now that the AG report has dropped I would not be surprised at all if De Blasio is significantly less unpopular in updated polling.
- gowld 5y agoDiBlasio is leaving. The primary already completed..Eric Adams will become mayor.
- busymom0 5y agoImo, all this Cuomo stuff is a huge distraction from the much bigger elephant in the room which people in power don't want to address. Back in March 2020, the American Health Care Association told Cuomo, Wolf, Murphy, Whitmer etc to stop ordering infected patients into nursing homes. The governors ignored the AHCA and removed their own family from nursing homes while forcing others: https://archive.is/bP8hz https://archive.is/bP8hz https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1191811 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1191811 After this, it turned out Cuomo was also fabricating and lying about the actual nursing home death numbers by 10000. Remember the trans Health Secretary Rachel Levine from PA (now US Assistant Health Secretary) who took out her own mother from nursing home while pushing covid patients into them: https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-moved-mother-from-nursing-home/ https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-m... Despite all this, nobody has been held accountable and last month, the DOJ dropped the investigation: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/cuomo-alone-silent-after-ag-report-as-new-york-awaits-next-move https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/cuomo-alo...
- wutbrodo 5y agoThe worst part is, bits of this were known from the beginning of the pandemic, but that didn't stop him from becoming a national hero on the left, despite a pandemic performance that ranged from unlucky at best to inept/corrupt at worst. It's only once Trump was out of office that a big chunk of the population (partially) woke up from this weird delirium in which literally everything bad is Trump's fault and literally everyone who isn't him is a saint. In light of deep stupidity like this, it baffles me that people bother using models of electorate behavior more sophisticated than emotionally-incontinent monkeys banging on typewriters. There's more consistency and intelligence evident in the way six year olds pick their favorite power rangers.
- gowld 5y agoAre you saying that nursing home patients should be moved to live on the street? Where else could they go?
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- cle 5y agoThis should highlight why some companies have such strict policies about what you can do outside of work. Like it or not, every extracurricular activity is a potential PR risk, especially in the last few years where reputations and trust can be quickly destroyed based on circumstantial evidence.
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- jesboat 5y agoFacebook also has such policies. This would be a pretty clear violation, on multiple ways. If the story holds up (I'm aware of no reason why it wouldn't), there will be enormous internal pressure to remove her, and I'd be pretty shocked if they don't fire her reasonably quickly.
- sandworm101 5y ago>> Dani Lever — who had worked in Cuomo’s press operation since 2014 but left in August 2020 to join Facebook as a communications manager This is the sort of hire that drives me nuts. I'm sure this person is a fully capable communications manager, but what Facebook really purchased was political access. Is it no surprise then that long after beginning work she was doing favors for her former employer? Maintaining a connection to powerful politicians might well have been in her job description. >> Prior to joining Cuomo’s office in 2014, Lever worked as a press assistant for President Barack Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign and worked in press relations at the Clinton Foundation, among other roles, according to her LinkedIn profile. Which is more valuable to Facebook: her skills as a "communication manager" or the fact that she probably has the personal numbers for half of Washington? After some quickly googling: she appears to be the daughter of a prominent NYC attorney, which might have something to do with her previous work, as a student, for NY's attorney general. And for NYC's comptroller general. I would have killed for such jobs during law school. She seems to have bounced between them while an undergrad. "Lever, who grew up in Quaker Ridge, graduated from [redacted] and the University of Wisconsin-Madison also worked for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, President Obama's 2012 campaign, and Clinton Foundation. She is the daughter of Joel and Debbie Lever of Bradford Road." https://scarsdale10583.com/about-joomla/the-project/5776-scarsadale-s-dani-lever-named-press-secretary-for-governor-andrew-cuomo https://scarsdale10583.com/about-joomla/the-project/5776-sca... I love that "Bradford Road" reference. That is New England code for an old and well connected family. (The implications of her highschool are just inappropriate and so I redact it.)
- thepasswordis 5y agoCuomo also sent thousands of elderly people to their deaths by forcing them back into nursing homes. And yes, I mean forcing. Do you remember the hospital ship? The field hospitals? Javits center? Did you know the hospital ship went home after being almost completely unused? Did you know it treated IN TOTAL 182 people? With a crew of 1200 and 1000 available beds? Did you know that javits center never even got remotely close to full? In TOTAL in treated about 1000 patients and had 4000 beds. And yet he’s forcing these elderly back into nursing homes because it makes him look in charge, and fuels his idiotic feud he had going with the federal government over who was more leadery. He won an Emmy for it! Cuomo should be facing prison. The people who have been helping him cover up killing thousands of elderly people as a political play should as well. The fact that he was transferring state employees around so he could kiss them on the cheek and touch their face should get him disgraced and fired. It is absolutely a distraction from the horror he has inflicted upon thousands of people. Imagine him sending your grandmother to her death so that he could look good on television. Absolutely evil.
- AzzieElbab 5y agoSadly the real scandal is that he was "following the science" at the given time and he wasnt the only official who did
- neartheplain 5y agoWhether Cuomo "followed the science" in his nursing home directive is debatable. From Wikipedia (see above link): >Cuomo repeatedly stated that the order was based on CDC guidance issued by the Trump administration. PolitiFact rated that statement as "mostly false" because the guidelines issued by the CDC and CMS indicated that a medically stable COVID-19 patient could be discharged from a hospital to a nursing home "only if the nursing home can implement all recommended infection control procedures."
- AzzieElbab 5y agoWhat were the recommended infection control procedures? Disinfect surfaces and provide masks? Kind of a big deal was that the nursing homes mostly resisted but ultimately had to obey the order
- jsnell 5y agoThe only link to HN here appears to be the Facebook angle. But from the phrasing in the article, I don't think those "confidental files" had anything to do with Facebook?
- slibhb 5y agoThe shocking thing about Cuomo is how blatant it all was. Not just the sexual harassment but his character across the board. This is a guy who wrote a book about his leadership in the covid pandemic during the covid pandemic. That's like Churchill writing his memoir of World War II during The Blitz. We ought to have a culture where someone who behaves like this is laughed out of the building.
- stefan_ 5y agoThe things described by the victims were indeed perfectly relatable for anyone who ever watched one of his press briefings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK_kB-JJMKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK_kB-JJMKo
- 74d-fe6-2c6 5y agoAfter you realize that Jimmy Savile could do it in front of an entire nation live on TV for several decades this ugly Schmock's feat doesn't seem so incredible anymore. Same goes for Epstein. Humans are a bunch of opportunistic little fuckers who will look away whenever it gets uncomfortable or is useful.
- linuxftw 5y ago> We ought to have a culture where someone who behaves like this is laughed out of the building. Some of us do, but the partisan politics have blinded many. We can't even agree on basic things any more, like supporting the Iraq war should be a disqualification for either party at this point. People keep supporting these liar, fraud, war criminal types.
- iammisc 5y agoTo be fair, Iraq basically was a disqualifier in 2016. Little data is to be had on 2020 since the gop primary didn't really mean much. Trump campaigned on how dumb Afghanistan and Iraq are and promised to remove troops.
- bequanna 5y agoOnly in New York is a persona like that tolerated and celebrated. Those of us in Middle America are indeed laughing at his obvious attention seeking and machismo. Like many other officials during this period, his frequent press conferences were nothing but ego satisfying spectacles.
- nova22033 5y agoas a communications manager OMG...this person worked as THE "communication manager" for facebook...everyone knows facebook only has ONE communication manager and she pretty much runs the company... This is guilt by loose association...Typical NYPOST/Murdoch crap..
- brian_herman 5y agoWhy am I not surprised at this at all.
- graycat 5y agoFor this Cuomo situation, I smell, call it, opportunistic, timely press manipulation, a version of Kabuki theater. While I "smell" this, I can't prove any of it. I don't know what he did to the women, but I still smell something timely. So, the hidden, unspoken rules of the game are for all the Democrats to make very loud, visible public statements that they are morally outraged and jump and dump on Cuomo. That way the Democrats look more moral, sticklers for good government, and defenders of women. They get LOTS of press, at least for some weeks. This Cuomo story stands to last in the press: The press can still run Cuomo sex stories but can't actually remove him from office or actually fine him, jail him, etc. Essentially the only way Cuomo can actually be seriously hurt is via the legal system, and that will take months, months for the media story to continue. And this case in the court cases may be of the form "he said, she said". Moreover, "this just in", at Newsmax there is a headline "Dershowitz: Cuomo Case Short on Law, 'Going Nowhere'" In this case, the Democrats get months of publicity looking moral and nothing very serious happens to Cuomo. That's what I smell here. For Cuomo, sure, a first guess is that jumping and dumping on him makes him and the Democrat Party look dirty, corrupt, immoral, mean to women, etc. Q. Why are the Democrats eager to get all this publicity? A. The Democrats REALLY want the publicity, especially that they are so moral, and assume that the public won't much care about what Cuomo did. Right, there is a contradiction here: In all of this manipulation, the Democrats want to look especially moral but are also willing to work hard to have one prominent Democrat look especially IMmoral. Such is publicity, manipulating the media, etc. Did I mention that I can't prove any of this? Uh, such is politics in NY and USA?
- sayhar 5y agoFirst off, Cuomo is terrible. People are right to point to the nursing home problems, but there's even more. Stuff like setting up an "anti-corruption" commission to attack his political foes, then hastily shutting it down when it started investigating him. Many of his close aides being arrested for straight up corruption, etc. He's been flagrantly bad for a long time. (Look up the Moreland commission) That said, a communications manager is strongly, hilariously, obviously not a "facebook executive". For one thing, it's an IC position. CM's don't manage people, they "manage" a message. (Source: I worked at FB) Please don't let yourself get baited by the literal tabloid that is the Murdoch post.
- bquest2 5y agoWhen i saw this was from the post, i was saddened by how many comments there where as so many seem to take it seriously.
- sayhar 5y agoYeah, it's really sad. I don't know what to do about it. There's just a shocking lack of context when it comes to news/politics here. Which, I guess, shouldn't be so shocking -- why should we expect people to have expertise in this area? Maybe the truly shocking thing is the ratio of strong opinions to actual knowledge.
- happynacho 5y agoDems and Big Tech, name a more iconic duo.
- discordance 5y agoThere is an endless amount of hideous behavior from the folks over at Facebook that we all inevitably hear about. I was always puzzled why so few FB employees whistleblow (RSUs aside). That was until I read An Ugly Truth and read about Sonya Ahuja's internal policing tactics. Scary stuff! I feel sorry for you all being keylogged and monitored so closely by your employer!