Facebook's Zuckerberg denies company ignored signs of Russian meddling

Facebook's Zuckerberg denies company ignored signs of Russian meddling

6 years ago
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https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-denies-the-company-ignored-warning-signs-about-russian-election-meddling/

On Wednesday, the Times published a more than 5,000-word investigative report that shined a harsh spotlight on how Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg dealt with election meddling by Russian operatives and a massive data privacy scandal.  

The report says the two executives ignored warnings, deflected blame and were distracted by other projects as scandals mounted over the past three years. The scandals included interference in the 2016 US presidential election by Russian trolls and a data privacy slip in which the information of 87 million Facebook users was harvested by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.