Tremendous detail and meticulous reporting by @ceciliakang & @sheeraf in this excerpt from their new book. Their work is creating such an important historical record. Cannot wait to read this book!https://t.co/ygfZo3hZtA

— Kate Klonick (@Klonick) July 8, 2021

I think it’s worth pointing out timing, too. He interviewed literally during a period in 2016 when the conflicts of interest were tremendous knowing what we know now. https://t.co/nz7wgdKoK0

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) July 8, 2021

Someone had to be thrown under the bus for Facebook’s sins and it sure wasn’t going to be Mark. Read this excerpt from the new book by ⁦@sheeraf⁩ and ⁦@ceciliakang⁩ Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump https://t.co/p1RV0XMKzf

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) July 8, 2021

The part about the doctored Pelosi video here is mind blowing, in a bad way. Should have been a no brainer. https://t.co/Ivw6u6do9a

— Michael J. Zalewski (@mjzalewski) July 8, 2021

Do you think it is coincidence that Zuckerberg and Sandberg decided to do a walk-by the cameras in Sun Valley on the same day that our NYT excerpt came out about their relationship? https://t.co/BBebdOgBe8

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 8, 2021

ah yes just a casual, definitely not planned, perfectly-timed, cordial walk in front cameras https://t.co/s0SCf7spHW

— Makena Kelly (@kellymakena) July 8, 2021

Lots to unpack about the most powerful people in the world. Looking forward to reading the book out loud to this commander in chief: https://t.co/wBOksm0mBM pic.twitter.com/wHunhn8AFM

— Joan Donovan, ? (@BostonJoan) July 8, 2021

I reviewed “An Ugly Truth,” the @sheeraf and @ceciliakang book that takes you behind the scenes of Facebook’s many scandals, for @nytimesbooks. The book comes out in a few days! https://t.co/NuyHJGyfL9

— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) July 9, 2021

When the cover is good reading, you know the book will be amazing. https://t.co/4zDTp5xeqW

— Dave Pell (@davepell) July 8, 2021

I'm assuming this is what the "Agrestes" episode was based on? https://t.co/J7rAx6fIFz

— st. (@seyitaylor) July 8, 2021

This book is going to be so good. The first excerpt offers a pretty complicated view of Sandberg’s evolving role and the seeming acknowledgement that FB has tarnished whatever legacy she leaves. https://t.co/OjNnYs620a

— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) July 8, 2021

Btw as I frequently told Sheryl in ever more irritating phone calls over the years, there was no smooth handling of what was fundamentally a product issue. What Mark made was designed to eventually incite more than illuminate. It was an inevitable and obvious rage machine.

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) July 8, 2021

She is not without blame. But the mark forces are trying to lay this mostly at her feet, even though he has all the control and has made all the bad calls. Trust me.

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) July 8, 2021

This piece is fascinating but, as usual with mainstream coverage of Facebook, only briefly/terrifiedly mentions Peter Fucking Thiel, who engineered every part of the Zuck and Trump relationship. *It was Thiel who set up the meeting, but anyway moving on…* https://t.co/9b0mL7Rz3j

— Paul Bradley Carr (@paulbradleycarr) July 8, 2021

OK. This is news buried in excerpt of new book. Remember, this was one of Facebook’ executives involved in covering up Facebook’s role in having Americans’ data illegally sold and used by a foreign political operative to help elect Trump with Facebook in the room guiding them. /1 pic.twitter.com/xr74GemOEz

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) July 8, 2021

Three big takeaways from this piece:

Sandberg is a moral coward.
Facebook, along with its other sins, has a deeply sexist culture.
Zuckerberg is a sociopath. But we knew that. https://t.co/HfQMZIEW8o

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) July 8, 2021

This very timely book by @ceciliakang and @sheeraf seems to be rather promising, going by this excerpt. ???

Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s partnership did not survive Trump https://t.co/3FujB4tIlP

— Venkat Ananth (@venkatananth) July 8, 2021

When we told people we were writing a book about Facebook, everyone's first question was why Sandberg stayed at the company. We tried to answer some of that in this excerpt, but it is just a tiny sliver of what we have in our book! https://t.co/3hYX5lKaFJ

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 8, 2021

Oh there are cameras here? That’s a surprise for sure. https://t.co/KFnK2azgZB

— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) July 8, 2021

A lot for these two to discuss today, including this from @sheeraf and @ceciliakang: https://t.co/8gWkkvxxbf https://t.co/llOju7eu8I

— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) July 8, 2021

I can’t wait for this book. But “at Facebook, being proactive was not always appreciated,” the authors write… https://t.co/lIicQoKeXJ

— Alex Malouf (@alex_malouf) July 9, 2021

It’s a lot of mistakes, John. With great power … you know the rest

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) July 8, 2021

"Zuckerberg scheduled an appointment with Mr. Kushner, who had led digital media strategy for the Trump campaign. He wanted to deliver a compliment about the campaign, and told Mr. Kushner: 'You were very good on Facebook.'" https://t.co/hH4EcyK7Bd

— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) July 8, 2021

The first excerpt of the book Facebook execs have been dreading. https://t.co/NfmHa8pnlv

— Adam Satariano (@satariano) July 8, 2021

As an update to this, a Facebook employee has now added an “Are we the baddies” meme as a comment to this post. https://t.co/8DdV6VZie6

— Ryan Mac? (@RMac18) July 8, 2021

It’s like when they make you shoot b roll for the interview and you are forced to do small talk with the reporter in a walk and talk. https://t.co/6kcHlKZNtB

— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) July 8, 2021

This paints a bleak picture of Sandberg's recent tenure at Facebook. But we've been hearing variations of this about her for years. (She's going to quit. Going to run for Senate. Going to work for Clinton. Etc.)

And she's still at the job.https://t.co/nRVeXKwGg0

— Steve Kovach (@stevekovach) July 8, 2021

Stipulate that disinformation had a bad effect on event X (the 2016 election, let’s say), and that people were exposed to disinformation on Facebook. That’s not at all sufficient to establish Facebook’s causal role in X. @sheeraf https://t.co/0AfWPiQ6ff

— Crispin Sartwell (@CrispinSartwell) July 9, 2021

Ms. Sandberg would go on to tell Dan Rose, a former vice president at Facebook, that she felt she had been “put on this planet to scale organizations.”https://t.co/0siSJic4ZA

— William Turton (@WilliamTurton) July 8, 2021

What rift? Still close, at Sun Valley https://t.co/HxjEEQEcln pic.twitter.com/v3lQDC8UYi

— Tom Giles (@tsgiles) July 8, 2021

i love to take public walks with my good friends around the cul-de-sac https://t.co/VH1HHT7tu9

— Ali Breland (@alibreland) July 8, 2021

A side-by-side walk past the camera by $FB Zuckerberg and Sandberg. Both declined to comment on Trump’s lawsuit pic.twitter.com/zyRGLpExvy

— Ed Ludlow (@EdLudlow) July 8, 2021

Still thinking about this Don Graham quote describing Mark Zuckerberg's relationship to books a few hours later! https://t.co/octxhrecTm

via @sheeraf @ceciliakang & their book out next week pic.twitter.com/VhvoLgAUij

— David McCabe (@dmccabe) July 8, 2021

I mean, Sheryl Sandberg is as guilty as Zukerberg, but hasn't gotten nearly as much attention. What really did not survive was America. America did not survive the partnership between Zukerberg and Sandberg.

Curses on them both. https://t.co/mTLH9coB5a

— Molotovsky ? (@GriffTheImpaler) July 8, 2021

Authors are kept in the dark about reviewers. Boy did they pick a Facebook expert: @sarahfrier, author of "Unfiltered"

This makes the review even more satisfying https://t.co/lGyc1QkF99

— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) July 9, 2021

Recall that Trump’s campaign was utilizing data it siphoned from millions of Facebook users and was at the same time getting preferable rates on its advertising spend based on Facebook's pricing mechanism while also running voter suppression campaigns targeting Black voters. https://t.co/B0kpVUQYjI

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) July 8, 2021

Telling detail on role of lobbyists during 2016 transition
“Mr. Kaplan, who accompanied Ms. Sandberg to Trump Tower, stayed 1 day longer to interview with the Trump transition team for the position of director of the OMB.” https://t.co/6mynCeenFf

— Heath Brown (@heathbrown) July 8, 2021

"An Ugly Truth” is
"the ultimate takedown...the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse: It confirms your worst suspicions,gives you all the dates and details" Great review! @ceciliakang @sheeraf https://t.co/wuQCdhqpgo

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) July 9, 2021

a lot of weird moments in this piece, but this line is memorably wretched:

"Ms. Sandberg would go on to tell Dan Rose, a former vice president at Facebook, that she felt she had been “put on this planet to scale organizations.”" https://t.co/0ZGjhsAoLI

— Christine Emba (@ChristineEmba) July 8, 2021

Lol, I absolutely trust that you have the inside scoop on the specific people dynamics! I just think that in the end, she will probably author the narrative of her own ultimate exit (maybe even with Zuck's support).

— Runa Islam (@runaislam) July 8, 2021

Reminder that there is no redemption, no chance whatsoever, for Facebook to improve (or even attempt to balance the scales) as long as Joel Kaplan remains a part of that company.

None. Full stop. https://t.co/UVWlOnvT5a

— Heather Reid (@hkreid) July 8, 2021

"The indictments made it clear just how large a part Facebook had played, both in spreading misinformation about election fraud to fuel anger among the Jan. 6 protesters, and in aiding the extremist militia’s communication ahead of the riots." https://t.co/2evj9Ro1e7

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 8, 2021

Facebook makes public policy and does so badly, concerned with image and liability, not with the effects of its outsized power on people’s safety and rights. Looking forward to reading ↘️ https://t.co/0sAf9nNLti

— Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake) July 9, 2021

Some good image rehabilitation in this for Sandberg. Perhaps the political ambitions aren't dead yet.https://t.co/dBa7kDsZxO

— evelyn douek (@evelyndouek) July 8, 2021

Pinch me.
??Our first review!!??
“An Ugly Truth” provides the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse: It confirms your worst suspicions and then gives you all the dates and details you need.”https://t.co/osta50eogc

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 9, 2021

I think they are running a large company trying to make the best they can to make two warring factions happy while running a business. People want a scape goat but it won’t fix anything.
Mistakes are inevitable, especially when running a large social media company.

— John Matze ? (@john_matze) July 8, 2021

OVER THE MOON right now as @sarahfrier, who knows Facebook inside and out, nails it and why we set out to write #AnUglyTruth pic.twitter.com/QxfWHuk5Gn

— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) July 9, 2021

“Company Over Country” https://t.co/0XP0Cteeo0

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 9, 2021

Facebook, with all its blandness and banality, is liable to take the blame for anything and everything that anyone doesn’t prefer: the election of Trump, for example, or the disintegration of our very shared reality itself. https://t.co/RzBZkayO0Y

— Crispin Sartwell (@CrispinSartwell) July 9, 2021

Not a fan of the ghoulish caricature thing. Analyzing organizations and their leaders is a complicated business, and oversimplifying it through graphical vilification does not help.https://t.co/Bxu0Ntb2zd

— Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) July 9, 2021

A master class in framing a no-comment: “Both executives declined to comment for this story, perhaps letting the company’s performance speak for itself.” https://t.co/T0JHEwIePW

— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) July 8, 2021

So excited for this book by two badass women. @Facebook already squirming: https://t.co/6W4bTCkEHe

— Julia Macfarlane ????????? (@juliamacfarlane) July 8, 2021

just a depressingly impoverished view of the human person (and oneself)

— Christine Emba (@ChristineEmba) July 8, 2021

The Trump presidency was a trying period for Facebook and for its leaders, testing a central relationship between Zuckerberg and Sandberg as she became increasingly isolated. An excerpt from the long-awaited book "An Ugly Truth" by @sheeraf @ceciliakang https://t.co/ExBb7Oe8iq

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 8, 2021

So the guy Zuckerberg has running Facebook global policy — including it’s work on election interference and disinfo — interviewed to lead Trump’s OMB and was an architect of the 2000 Brooks Brother riots to stop ballot counting in Florida. Cool. https://t.co/qR68DwMbyb

— Corey Ciorciari (@CoreyCiorciari) July 8, 2021

Importantly, reports were it was Sandberg and Kaplan’s collective political capital that allowed her to pre-negotiate and avoid taking and answering actual tough questions on the matter the very one time she had to testify under oath to Congress in 2018. /3

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) July 8, 2021

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. https://t.co/l8EIX9vdXE

— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) July 8, 2021

In the Trump era, Facebook struggled with the role it played in his rise and in the spread of misinformation around the world. But the company’s problems were features, not bugs, and were the natural outgrowth of Zuckerberg and Sandberg’s partnership. https://t.co/xeFrwgaCqc

— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 8, 2021

Interesting details here about the corporate inertia inside Facebook around the obviously manipulated Pelosi video (which we first reported in 2019: https://t.co/1squYDG2Hb). "Zuckerberg and members of the policy team pondered if the video could be defined as parody" https://t.co/Yu4hioc2KW

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) July 8, 2021

??1st REVIEW: "The Ultimate Takedown"
"The kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse: It confirms your worst suspicions and then gives you all the dates and details..."https://t.co/s44cM9ToMR

— Cecilia Kang (@ceciliakang) July 9, 2021

It’s positioned Kaplan “withdrew” but “took the interview anyway,” whatever that means. The entire cover-up cost over $5B to SEC/FTC to avoid Sandberg, Kaplan, Zuckerberg, others classified as “insiders” being deposed and having their role in the cover-up show up in discovery. /2

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) July 8, 2021

Why is Facebook a malign force? Likely because it is a dangerously defective product controlled by deeply flawed humans. https://t.co/acMTdxeVHr

— David Carroll (@profcarroll) July 8, 2021

1/ Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump: make time to read this book excerpt from @ceciliakang and @sheeraf. It is part of an extensive effort to chronicle Facebook based on hundreds of interviews: https://t.co/JcU3YOAlQo

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) July 8, 2021

Really digging these blurbs on the new Facebook book by @ceciliakang and @sheeraf — it feels … familiar. And excited to read this tome tonight. pic.twitter.com/FX4UuyxBqn

— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) July 8, 2021

Great read about the most interesting relationship in modern business.

Not sure that I agree with the editorial take on SS getting "thrown under the bus," though. It seems to me that she has always had a ton of agency in her relationship with MZ, even (especially?) post 2016. https://t.co/hOcGd4xRUH

— Runa Islam (@runaislam) July 8, 2021

Zuck has always been a sycophant but this is truly gross https://t.co/mNiV2PVORL pic.twitter.com/XylUgHcqrJ

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) July 8, 2021

"'An Ugly Truth'” provides the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse."

The best @sarahfrier on the best @sheeraf & @ceciliakang https://t.co/PXHefK47og

— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) July 9, 2021

Journalist @sarahfrier, who wrote her own definitive book on Instagram, writes the first review of #AnUglyTruth. She summarizes, (better than I could!), why you should buy the book.https://t.co/osta50eogc pic.twitter.com/kgsV4Y4073

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 9, 2021

"'An Ugly Truth' provides the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse: It confirms your worst suspicions and then gives you all the dates and details you need to cut through the company’s spin." https://t.co/j3OP54C9Pv

— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) July 9, 2021

Cool. ⁦@sarahfrier⁩ reviews @sheeraf ⁦@ceciliakang⁩’s new book on Facebook, ‘An Ugly Truth’ https://t.co/M5HowB3wgR

— Pui-Wing Tam (@puiwingtam) July 9, 2021

"The ultimate takedown... provides the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse"

Here's The New York Times book review of AN UGLY TRUTH by @sheeraf and @ceciliakang: https://t.co/HrU1MPkdWB

— Pamela Paul (@PamelaPaulNYT) July 9, 2021

"An Ugly Truth” is
"the ultimate takedown...the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse: It confirms your worst suspicions,gives you all the dates and details" Great review! @ceciliakang @sheeraf https://t.co/wuQCdhqpgo

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) July 9, 2021

.@sarahfrier's review of "An Ugly Truth" --the blockbuster Facebook expose from @sheeraf
and @ceciliakang-- is ??:
"The book "provides the kind of satisfaction you might get," she writes, "if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse:"https://t.co/smSeR3u7B2

— Natasha Singer (@natashanyt) July 9, 2021

"'An Ugly Truth' provides the kind of satisfaction you might get if you hired a private investigator to track a cheating spouse: It confirms your worst suspicions and then gives you all the dates and details." Congrats to @ceciliakang and @sheeraf ???https://t.co/BvdiVRbkUe

— David Gelles (@dgelles) July 9, 2021

"Oh f---, how did we miss this?" Mark Zuckerberg asked in a Dec. 2016 meeting, looking around at his top executives.

A new excerpt from "An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination" details how Facebook discovered Russian meddling. https://t.co/9mH8nF4tJi

— Axios (@axios) July 9, 2021

"Oh f---, how did we miss this?" Zuckerberg asked during a Dec 2016 meeting

Facebook's security team, it turns out, first spotted Russian activity on the platform in March 2016, but Zuckerberg & COO Sheryl Sandberg were first told about it 9 months later https://t.co/lhL7V5YUV1

— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) July 9, 2021

“Company Over Country” https://t.co/0XP0Cteeo0

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 9, 2021

“The security team had first spotted Russian activity on the platform in March 2016. #Facebook was sitting on a trove of information proving that a foreign government had tried to meddle in the U.S. election.”

They knew:
8 months before the election.https://t.co/tqxlD4Yn7h

— Evan Shapiro (@eshap) July 9, 2021

Second review of our book, #AnUglyTruth, is out! So delighted that @Sbenkelman called said the book has, "rich detail that will be important in the ongoing assessment of social media’s impact on society and democracy. " https://t.co/ifI8qLqqoO

— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) July 9, 2021

Facebook is always on the cusp of some disaster but then it somehow sidesteps the crisis and then makes money off the very aversion of disaster. It’s a pattern in a new book by @sheeraf and @ceciliakang. How long can it repeat itself? https://t.co/Gxw9YZUFHH

— Susan Benkelman (@Sbenkelman) July 9, 2021

In @sarahfrier's review of @ceciliakang & @sheeraf's new book on Facebook, a grim anecdote that again confirms: Facebook absolutely knew what was going to happen on January 6.

My question: did it tell the FBI? https://t.co/JnMeVhUzUm pic.twitter.com/6iVXYrtChM

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) July 10, 2021

.@sarahfrier on Facebook’s January 6th negligence:

“it’s part of a familiar pattern: the social media behemoth does as little as possible to prevent disasters from happening, then feebly attempts to avoid blame and manage public appearances.”https://t.co/WDL4NBbx9j

— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) July 10, 2021

Facebook “does as little as possible to prevent disasters from happening, then feebly attempts to avoid blame and manage public appearances.” https://t.co/331Gpyj1dP

— Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) July 10, 2021

.@mrddmia: @The_IAP is "clearly living rent-free in Jim Jordan’s head.”https://t.co/4bPEnQ9o4X

— Internet Accountability Project (IAP) (@The_IAP) July 9, 2021