TODAY: Facebook — the problems it’s created and the problems it’s facing. With talk with NYT reporters @sheeraf and @ceciliakang, authors of the 'An Ugly Truth.' They write that Facebook’s problems have been features, not bugs.

— Fresh Air (@nprfreshair) July 13, 2021

I thought that was the original design goal. https://t.co/IogHPiFf6x

— Floor (@floorter) July 13, 2021

In just a short timespan, Facebook fired over 50 employees for abusing their data access. The vast majority of fired engineers were men looking up the personal data of women they were interested in https://t.co/Q0h4TPFBHh pic.twitter.com/ugttWXpdMz

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 13, 2021

Could have used the leaked version of Facebook’s database offline instead.

This is just one aspect of how big of a fuckup Facebook made with this 533,000,000 users database leak. https://t.co/url4JuGL6o

— Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) July 13, 2021

A Facebook engineer used his access to user data to stalk a woman he had been seeing. Through the app on her phone, he could see her location in real time.

Former employees say there was nothing but "goodwill" to stop them from abusing data. https://t.co/ktMK6jJ46R

— Know Your IX (@knowyourIX) July 13, 2021

Tbf, those fired engineers were just sticking to the ideals that originally founded Facebook. https://t.co/H366yxoPt8

— Andrew Coleman Francis (@AndrewCFrancis) July 13, 2021

THANK YOU. I’ve been waiting for the Cybersec folks to weigh on this, and on the Russia chapters which have a lot of previously unreported details. https://t.co/pLhmUwyjUK

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 13, 2021

Facebook book response is 367 kinds of awful: "There have been 367 books published on Facebook, each claiming novel insight into how we operate. It seems this one is not only a rehash of history but relies on anecdotes supplied by mostly unnamed critics." https://t.co/h01caQaOri

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) July 13, 2021

Heard from a Facebook engineer this morning that their manager had told them not to buy or read our book, #anuglytruth.
(He bought it anyway!)

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 12, 2021

Unsurprisingly some Facebook employees abuse their access to stalk partners and exes. Some got caught. Some got fired. “It happened practically every month.” https://t.co/GOmwgpPp5l

— Eva (@evacide) July 13, 2021

it's not the exact same because the zuckerberg character was looking at the profile through the normal website (and it was fiction), but it's extra creepy/weird that this is what happens in literally the last scene of the social network https://t.co/HUkEsDJQBO

— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) July 13, 2021

An especially lame non-denial denial. https://t.co/y1VoJv5bt7

— Kim Masters (@kimmasters) July 13, 2021

Authors @ceciliakang and @sheeraf have produced a valuable record of what went wrong, when, where, why, specifically in the last five years... https://t.co/VLNRSRz0ww

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 13, 2021

And "personal data" in this context could mean anything from home addresses to their deepest fears. I would love to know how many of these assholes tried set up some kind of "random meet-cute" with the women they were stalking https://t.co/6yuSpqjXXL

— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) July 13, 2021

Woah.

In 2014 and 2015 Facebook fired 52 employees for looking up the private information of users.

“Men who looked up the Facebook profiles of women they were interested in made up the vast majority of engineers who abused their privileges.”https://t.co/EbWTFeskRv

— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) July 13, 2021

Facebook's engineers have been stalking women for more than a decade. The failure to protect women's privacy is built in at very core of @Facebook . https://t.co/VDVSqPVDN9

— Dr. Ann Olivarius (@AnnOlivarius) July 13, 2021

?They are two of the world's most powerful – yet unknowable – leaders

?A new book has gone in search of the real Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, the masterminds behind social media giant Facebook.

Thread ?https://t.co/QfNecVTYwz pic.twitter.com/cUPonic9qH

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 13, 2021

So should we delete Facebook? The authors, both users themselves, say no. The three apps are so entwined in our lives. “I don’t think it’s realistic,” says Frenkel.

And therein lies the rub.

https://t.co/CZlyRRmaUd

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 12, 2021

"[Facebook has] said that for at least two years, Trump will be banned and that two years expires, essentially ahead of his ability to campaign again for the 2024 campaigns." @sheeraf https://t.co/bc4gmnsvBU

— Fresh Air (@nprfreshair) July 13, 2021

"It's very clear from our reporting that Facebook knew the potential for explosive violence was very real [on Jan 6]," @ceciliakang says. @sheeraf and Kang's book is 'An Ugly Truth.' https://t.co/bc4gmnsvBU

— Fresh Air (@nprfreshair) July 13, 2021

Reporters Reveal 'Ugly Truth' Of How Facebook Enables Hate Groups And Disinformation https://t.co/ZsFvWSZ9Py

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) July 13, 2021

New Book Reveals The 'Ugly Truth' Of How Facebook Enables Hate And Disinformation https://t.co/aSRP1DExo6

— Matt Navarra ??????? (@MattNavarra) July 13, 2021

Racists, wackos and subversive foreign-influencers have always existed but Facebook made it possible for them to push the snowball of lies to such a size that our democracy is under threat. Facebook has achieved what terrorists dream of https://t.co/oi3h5A1y5f

— Zoe Keating (@zoecello) July 13, 2021

Facebook "debated having Zuckerberg call Trump to try to defuse the Jan. 6 rally ahead of time, but it ultimately decided not to do so." FB knew but FBI, DHS didn't?https://t.co/fhL0AnWtsr

— FULLY VACCINATED (@Litzz11) July 14, 2021

Reporters Reveal 'Ugly Truth' Of How Facebook Enables Hate Groups And Disinformation ⁦- @nprfreshair⁩ https://t.co/WdVmKxBxOv

— NPR Business (@nprbusiness) July 14, 2021