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Delay, deny and deflect: How Facebook’s leaders fought through crisis — The New York Times

By TechTaffy Desk

Facebook has gone on the attack as one scandal after another, writes Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas.

Here is the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html

Facebook responded to the article: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/new-york-times-update/

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