New York Times Buries Ledes, Magnifies Molehills in Facebook Investigation

by ALLUM BOKHARI
Breitbart
Nov. 16, 2018

The most important piece of info in the New York Times’ extensive investigation into Facebook’s post-2016 crises doesn’t occur until the final quarter of the article:

From the article:

In July, as Facebook’s troubles threatened to cost the company billions of dollars in market value, Mr. Schumer confronted Mr. Warner, by then Facebook’s most insistent inquisitor in Congress.

Back off, he told Mr. Warner, according to a Facebook employee briefed on Mr. Schumer’s intervention. Mr. Warner should be looking for ways to work with Facebook, Mr. Schumer advised, not harm it. Facebook lobbyists were kept abreast of Mr. Schumer’s efforts to protect the company, according to the employee.

A Senate aide briefed on the exchange said that Mr. Schumer had not wanted Mr. Warner to lose sight of the need for Facebook to tackle problems with right-wing disinformation and election interference, as well as consumer privacy and other issues.

A top politician urging an ostensibly neutral social media platform take sides politically by cracking down on the “disinformation” of just one side sounds like a big story to me, but readers have to get through thousands of words before this is briefly mentioned. Schumer acting as the protector of Facebook within the Senate is also interesting: given that Facebook has indeed cracked down on the right – Schumer’s political opponents, these details hint at a quid pro quo relationship between Schumer and the tech giant.

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